MOVERS & SHAKERS
COMPILED BY JOSHUA H. SHIELDS
JOSEPH M. DRAYTON
Partner Cooley LLP
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Joseph Drayton is a part- ner in the Cooley litigation department and a member of the intellectual property litigation practice group. Prior to his position at Cooley, Drayton was president of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association of New York City. For the last 14 years Drayton was Counsel for Kaye Scholer LLP in New York City. His general litigation practice involved intellectual prop- erty, antitrust, and complex commercial issues. He was a member of Kaye Scholer’s diversity committee, recruit- ing committee, and had an active role in the fi rm’s partnership with the Bronx School of Law, Government and Justice. He earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.S. from the University of Maryland.
ERNEST TUCKETT General Counsel DuPont Canada
Ernest Tuckett is general counsel of DuPont Canada. He is a member of DuPont Canada’s corporate leader- ship team and the chief legal counsel to the com- pany. Previously, Tuckett served as a commercial lawyer supporting the multi- billion dollar crop protec- tion business platform for DuPont. He was responsible for advising and counseling senior business executives on a variety of commercial and general business issues around the world. Prior to that role, he was a labor and employment lawyer for DuPont. Before joining DuPont, he worked for Arent Fox’s Washington, D.C. offi ce in the litigation and employment practices. Tuckett graduated from Georgetown University and received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
ANAND SAHA Partner
Clifford Chance
Anand Saha is now a part- ner at Clifford Chance’s São Paulo capital markets prac- tice. He is an integral mem- ber of Clifford Chance’s Latin American corporate practice. He has advised on a long list of complex, high-visibility transactions in recent years, including TAM Airlines on its merger with LAN Airlines – a deal that will create the second largest airline in the world by market cap. Saha also advised several global investment banks on numerous high-yield, investment-grade, and liability-management transactions involving Latin American companies. He received his law degree from The London School of Economics and is admitted to practice in both New York and England & Wales.
VALERIE T. MATHERNE Partner
Courington, Kiefer & Sommers, LLC
Valerie T. Matherne is now a partner at New Orleans- based Courington, Kiefer & Sommers, LLC She concen- trates her practice in civil defense litigation, including automobile, product liability, environmental, toxic tort, bad faith, premises liability, construction, and employ- ment law. She also serves on the board of directors of the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. She is a member of the Louisiana and Mississippi bar associations. She earned her undergraduate degree from Florida State University and her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law, where she was the secretary of the student bar association and vice president and a founding member of the Loyola chap- ter of the Asian American Law Students Association.
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