Contributors

Drew Amerson is the Director of LexLab, a center for legal technology and innovation at UC Hastings Law School in San Francisco. Before LexLab, Drew taught intellectual property and entrepreneurship courses at UC Hastings. He also managed the Startup Legal Garage, an experi- ential educational program that places students from UC Hastings and UCLA with emerging technology companies and leading law firms. A pioneer in legal innovation, Drew founded a company in 2011 that created an online community to connect law firms and corporations with highly skilled freelance attorneys. His early career included stints at large and small law firms, as well as a federal district court clerkship. Drew is a graduate of Columbia Law School and has a BA in philosophy from Carleton College. Alexandra Andhov is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Law at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. In 2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Cornell Law School. Alexandra’s main areas of research are corporate law, capital market law, corporate social responsibility, contract law and technology. On these topics she has published articles in numerous European and US law journals and reviews. In 2017, Alexandra initiated an acclaimed educational project on ‘How to Start a Start-up’ at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, where students work directly with start-ups in Denmark. Alexandra leads the Legal Tech Group at the Faculty of Law in Copenhagen. She is on the board of the Nordic Legal Tech Hub and Finance Watch, a European NGO founded in reaction to the last financial crisis. Alexandra is currently working on topics covering blockchain and corporate governance and preparing a manuscript on the effects of technology on trust on capital markets. She has previously been a visiting researcher at Cornell Law School, Oxford Law School, Lund University

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Ehud Kamar is a Professor of Law at the Tel Aviv University Buchmann Faculty of Law and a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute. Before joining Tel Aviv University, he was a profes- sor of law and director of the University of Southern California’s business law program. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University, New York University, the University of Chicago and the Hebrew University. He teaches corporations, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, quantitative empirical methods and deal planning, and has published articles in leading scholarly journals such as the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. He holds an LLB and an LLM summa cum laude from the Hebrew University and an LLM and a JSD from Columbia University, and has practiced law in Israel and the United States. In 2019, he received the Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Research. Michèle Ineczka Kappeler is a Swiss lawyer and internationally trained mediator. For five years she co-founded and led as a partner a boutique attorney practice in the heart of Zurich before pursuing a new path with her company CMK Services Sàrl in Zurich. After years of international legal and banking practice based in Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich she built up expertise in the set-up and management of Swiss companies including contracts, banking and finance, and negotiations. A CIArb (UK) and KSFM (D) trained mediator she promotes alternative conflict resolution in business and private matters. After studying law followed by business management (HEC) at University of Geneva, she completed specializations in international trust management, financial asset man- agement and engineering as well as mediation. She has founded several companies in Switzerland and in the UK for her own projects and needs. Ayal Shenhav is the Head of the Hi-Tech and Investment Funds Practice at Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg, Shenhav & Co (‘GKH’), one of Israel’s leading law firms. He is ranked by Chambers & Co., Legal 500 and other publications as leading expert in Hi-Tech and Taxation. Dr Shenhav represents numerous venture capital funds and start-ups in their operations. He is also an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University and the IDC teaching Start Up Law. Dr Shenhav was formerly Vice Dean of the Radziner School of Law at the IDC and an Associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He is head of the Israel Advance Technologies Association (IATI) Law Firm and Accounting Firm Committee. Dr

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Shenhav has an LLB (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University and an LLM and JSD from NYU. Oleg Stratiev graduated with a Bachelor of Civil and Common Laws from McGill University and is currently an Associate in the Corporate Group at Fasken. Oleg’s practice focuses on public, private and institutional clients with respect to matters relating to securities, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance. Oleg works with companies, from start-ups to public issuers, in their various stages of development – supporting their mergers and acquisitions, equity issuances, and commercial activities. He also assists public issuers with their continuous disclosure obligations and governance issues. As part of his practice, Oleg also assists clients with regulatory and transactional matters regarding emerging technologies, private equity, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Oleg also has a strong interest in emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, and has pub- lished articles and spoken on subjects such as blockchain, cryptocurren- cies, liability and application of artificial intelligence. Concurrently to his practice, Oleg is also undertaking a Certificate in Accounting and Finance at McGill University. Prior to undertaking his corporate and commercial practice, Oleg was selected as one of the 15 individuals across Canada to clerk at the Tax Court of Canada. Jakob Wested, PhD, LLM (cand.jur) and BA (philosophy), postdoc at University of Copenhagen, Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). Jakob is a member of CeBIL collaborative research program working with the research groups on Orphan drugs and precision medicine. He has pre- viously worked on both IPR and EU regulatory issues related to synthetic biology, gene editing, and clinical development and approval of medicinal products. Jakob has also started a number of businesses himself and works closely together with the Innovation HUBs and student incubators at the University of Copenhagen. Shay Yanovsky counsels local and international clients across a range of industries, including software, internet, cyber and social media, block- chain technologies, cryptocurrencies, ICOs, e-commerce, telecommu- nications, biotechnology, medical devices, and cleantech. Shay advises these clients on a wide variety of issues, including intellectual property, internet and e-commerce, licensing, computer and information systems, telecommunications, open source, information security, privacy law and data protection regulations, as well as in various aspects relating to the

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Encouragement of Research and Development Law and to dealing with the Office of the Chief Scientist within the Ministry of Economics. Shay joined GKH in 2008 as an articled clerk and became an associate in 2009 and partner in 2017. During his studies, Shay was a teaching and research assistant in various courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and Ono Academic Center, such as Biopharmaceutical Patents, Intellectual Property at the Technological Era, and Service Inventions. In addition, Shay has been a teaching assistant at the Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University, the College of Management Academic Studies and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliah in advanced courses to MBA students such as Business Strategy and Strategy Management.

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