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Siller Wilk LLP is pleased to announce that Karen Monroe and Dominique Heritier have joined the firm. Karen joins as a partner and Dominique as an associate. Karen and Dominique practice in the international business area, with an emphasis on corporate, intellectual property, and dispute resolution matters (arbitration and litigation), handling matters in both English and French.

Karen specializes in cross-border matters between Europe and the United States, particularly cross-border matters between Switzerland and the United States. She has extensive experience in representing U.S. subsidiaries of non-U.S. companies, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities, licensing, technology-related law, trademarks, copyrights, and computers. She represents clients in numerous industries including food, interior design (textiles, furniture), finance, computer software, high-tech, entertainment (music, television, fashion, film, and publishing), cosmetics, and clothing. Karen also has been a member of the board of directors of both Swiss and U.S. for profit and not-for-profit corporations and organizations.

Since 1994 Karen has served on the editorial board of the International Trademark Association's law journal, The Trademark Reporter. Her publications include ÒAn Overview of the U.S. Federal Securities Laws as they Relate to Securities Offerings, Continuous Reporting Obligations, and American Depositary Receipt Programs, Ò a chapter appearing in International Business TransactionsøStandard Forms and Documents, published by Aspen Publishers. Karen is an active member of professional associations in the U.S. and in Switzerland in the fields of international, corporate, intellectual property, and arbitration laws including the International Bar Association (Travel and Tourism Committee), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, the Swiss Arbitration Association, and the International Trademark Association.

Karen Monroe is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A. 1979) and American University, Washington College of Law (J.D. 1983) where she was an editor of the American Society of International Law's International Law Journal. She began her career in international business law at the New York firms of Austrian, Lance and Stewart and Guggenheim and Untermeyer, then joined the firm of Burns Summit Rovins & Feldesman and became a partner in the corporate department. In 1993 she founded the international law firm of Monroe Partners International P.C. with offices in New York and Geneva, Switzerland, and since that time has split her practice between New York and Geneva. Before joining our firm she was a partner with Shustak Jalil & Heller and also a member of the international department in the New York office of Reed Smith.

Dominique Héritier joins us after being an associate at Shustak Jalil & Heller in New York and, before that, the firm of Secretan Troyanov in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dominique specializes in Swiss and U.S. law particularly in the areas of corporate, intellectual property, and contract law, as well as Swiss banking and securities laws. She provides legal advice to clients conducting business between Switzerland and the United States, with emphasis on each country's distinct legal requirements.

Dominique A. Héritier is a graduate of Fordham University (L.L.M., Corporate, Banking & Finance Law, 1999), the University of Melbourne (L.L.M., International and Comparative Law) and the University of Geneva, Switzerland (ÒLicence en DroitÓ, 1994). She is admitted to practice law in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.

Karen and Dominique will be resident both in New York and in Siller Wilk's new Geneva office. We are pleased that they have joined us and that we can offer our clients additional expertise in cross-border transactions.