Walter T. Featherly III

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Walter T. Featherly is the executive partner of Holland & Knight’s Anchorage office and a member of the firm’s Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group. Mr. Featherly focuses his practice on Alaska Native- and Native American-owned businesses. He regularly counsels boards of directors and executives on matters including corporate law and governance, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, government contracting, labour and employment, finance and real estate.

Mr. Featherly also assists Alaska Native Corporation and tribal-owned businesses to navigate the laws and regulations of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development and the Historically Underutilised Business Zones (HUBZone), particularly those related to subcontracting and teaming opportunities.

Mr. Featherly regularly speaks on the subjects of corporate governance and compliance, teaming and joint venturing, the requirements of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the SBA and other laws applicable to small, minority and disadvantaged contractors and the large companies that team with them.

In Alaska, Mr. Featherly has tried numerous cases in the areas of commercial transactions, real estate, construction, antitrust, bankruptcy, products liability, personal injury and eminent domain. He has also tried cases in federal courts and has argued appeals to the Alaska Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Featherly also serves as Honorary Consul to Croatia for the Alaska Consular Corps.

Firm Culture:

At Holland & Knight, we put our legal knowledge to work for you in a practical manner. We know that in order to be the best value to you, we must first provide personalised solutions tailored to your needs. With more than 1,400 lawyers in our U.S. and international offices and legal colleagues in over 40 countries around the world, Holland & Knight serves clients globally. Our clients recognise the ability of our firm to consistently provide excellent value in a variety of areas that range from commercial litigation, regulatory matters, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and government advocacy.

With 28 offices around the globe, we are committed to providing the highest quality legal counsel combined with the utmost in client service – across state and national borders – in a seamless, cost-effective manner. This level of legal guidance, combined with our interdisciplinary structure and the firm’s global network, is your assurance of high-quality resources when and where you need them.

Our lawyers are consistently recognised as leaders in the legal profession, earning accolades for service, responsiveness, results and pro-bono commitment.

Our mission is to provide seamless, efficient client-centric services over a wide range of industries. Collaboration across practices and offices, along with highly focused management of matters and cases, enables us to deliver dynamic legal support, regardless of location.

Every action we take is based on providing dedicated service with the most thorough knowledge and experience for each particular client need – whether it is a matter or transaction that can be resolved quickly, or a complex national or international dispute involving a broad range of legal services reaching across jurisdictions and borders.

Our approach enables us to be highly responsive with proactive, innovative strategies that help to create opportunities and transform your needs and goals into successes, agile with extensive industry-relevant knowledge, enabling us to provide comprehensive counsel – not just legal advice in a business vacuum, and connected to the latest industry trends and related business issues, making significant investments to stay abreast of the issues that are most important to our clients.

Michael E. Zolandz

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Mike Zolandz is the chair of Dentons’ Federal Regulatory and Compliance practice, and serves as the Managing Partner for Dentons’ Washington, DC office. Mike focuses his practice on advising clients on their most critical and complex trade compliance and foreign investment projects, specializing in cross-border transactions and regulations related to international commerce.

Mike offers clients practical expertise and guidance in advising on US export controls, US trade sanctions programs, anticorruption program development, and notification procedures before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Mike also brings decades of policy experience in Washington to offer clients insight into the legislative and regulatory process beyond purely technical expertise.

Mike has led internal investigations and regulatory disclosures under US export control and sanctions programs, and managed complex compliance enhancements and program development for US and multinational companies across industry sectors.

Mike’s compliance expertise also extends to experience with federal and state campaign finance and ethics law, lobbying disclosure requirements and pay-to-play restrictions, as well as registration requirements under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Firm Overview:

Dentons is a multinational law firm. Dentons is the world’s largest law firm by number of lawyers, and the 6th-largest law firm by revenue, with $2.36 billion in annual revenue. The firm is called Dentons in all languages other than Chinese, in which it is called 大成.

Ian P Govier

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Ian Govier is our exclusively recommended Compliance Services expert in England on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Ian directly using the contact details above.

Ian is the founder and Managing Director of Certius Professional Services Limited, an award-winning independent accounting, tax and business advisory firm, with an international client base.

Ian has over 30 years’ experience in the provision of strategic tax and business advice to both listed and owner managed businesses. A former International Tax Partner with KPMG and Tax Partner in Grant Thornton UK LLP, he was also global head of tax for Amersham International plc and European Tax Director for PepsiCo International/Yum Brands International.

A scientist by background, Ian has highly developed specialist skills in business and tax planning for both UK and cross border transactions, structuring and profit repatriation. Ian has in-depth knowledge and experience in the use of the UK Patent Box tax regime, Research and Development Tax Credits and investment in both UK and non-UK companies using the Seed Enterprise Investment and Enterprise Investment schemes.

Ian holds a BSc (Hons) degree from the University of London and is a Chartered Tax advisor, a Certified Practising Accountant, a Member of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has held a number of a non-executive director and trustee positions, including a non-executive directorship with Dorset Chamber of Commerce and Industry and as the Chair and Trustee of Hope Housing Training and Support Ltd.

Joana Baublytė-Kulvietė

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Ellex Valiunas, a member of Ellex, a circle of leading Baltic law firms, is the largest specialised legal team in Lithuania, with a solid portfolio of cross-border experience both in international projects and landmark local deals in the region, since its formation in 1992. With nearly 200 legal professionals and the broadest variety of practice areas, the firm is ideally positioned to provide each client with top expertise and in-depth specialised legal services.

Ellex Valiunas is the exclusive member in Lithuania for Lex Mundi – the world’s leading network of independent law firms with in-depth experience in 100+ countries worldwide and World Services Group (WSG) – a global membership association whose members are among the top providers of professional business services.

Colin Mills

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Colin Mills is our exclusively recommended Compliance Services expert in England on the Advisory Excellence website. If you need assistance in this area, please contact Colin directly using the contact details listed above.

Colin is the Founder and Chairman of The FD Centre Limited, and has over 20 years of financial director experience in UK, USA and European businesses with turnovers of £2 million to £500 million. A member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Institute Prize Winner, Colin also has an MBA from Henley. His industry experience covers construction, FMCG, retail, food, IT, contracting services, building products, paper, printing and property development. Before setting up The FD Centre in 2001, Colin worked for major organisations like the Mars Group (Global US owned), Benders (UK privately owned FMCG / paper products group), The Scholes Group plc (now part of Hanson Industries), Clifford Foods plc (now part of Unigate), and The Bradley Group (now part of Aggregate Industries), in both FD and CEO roles.

Colin has developed the following FD Centre programmes:

  • Keeping Control in Fast Growth Companies
  • Survival Solutions for Companies under Pressure
  • Managing Business Change “Fast” – a specific FD Centre methodology developed originally

Colin Mills is a former Finance Director of large multinationals and Plc companies. The FD Centre was established in 2001. It was the first business to provide part-time Finance Director services in the United Kingdom.