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www.negociosnow.com 14 Junio 2022 LAW SERGIO E. ACOSTA Partner Akerman LLP Sergio E. Acosta is a partner and co-chair of Akerman's white collar crime and government investigations practice. A former federal prosecutor with over 70 jury trials to his credit, he has extensive experience in defending companies and individuals in criminal and regulatory proceedings, conducting internal investigations, and counseling clients on compliance programs and related issues. A fluent Spanish speaker, Acosta has served as lead counsel in corporate internal investigations and represented individual corporate executives in Latin America. DIANE E. BELL Partner Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Diane E. Bell is a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP where she concentrates on private company mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, and joint ventures. She represents clients in media and technology, consumer products, and other industries. She co-founded Katten's LGBT Coalition and is a board member of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and Spanish from Washington University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School. JAMES BOTANA Office Managing Principal Jackson Lewis P.C. Chicago James Botana represents management in employment cases in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies. He was previously a prosecutor and senior attorney in the Employment Litigation Department of the city of Chicago. He was born in Havana and raised in Spain. Botana is the former co-chair of Jackson Lewis' Hispanic- American attorney resource group, an association of attorneys in the firm who specialize in providing assistance in workplace law to businesses with a large Hispanic workforce. JORGE CAZARES Partner Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Jorge Cazares is a partner at the law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. He is fluent in Spanish and grew up in the Pilsen neighborhood. Cazares started his legal career at the global law firm of Altheimer & Gray where he was the only Latino lawyer in the 250-lawyer firm during his two-year stay. Then he joined the firm of Pugh Jones & Johnson P.C. where his practice included contract and business disputes, commercial litigation, employment discrimination, local governmental defense, and civil rights defense. HUGO CHAVIANO Founder Hugo Chaviano P.C. Hugo Chaviano is an experienced attorney who has served as trial counsel, litigator, mediator and arbitrator in the United States and abroad. He has been a partner at major law firms, and his practice focused on representing Fortune 500 companies, large financial institutions, and others in civil litigation and personal injury. He is experienced in risk management and assessment of property and casualty losses. In 2015 he accepted a two-year appointment as director of the Illinois Department of Labor. SALVADOR CICERO Senior Partner CGG Law Partners Salvador Cicero is the senior partner of CGG Law Partners. The firm handles real estate, business, personal injury, immigration and international law, mediation, litigation, and family law. The firm represents clients in Illinois, and works in the federal system in California, Texas, New York, and Florida. Cicero has served as director of the American Bar Association's Project to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Ecuador, and he was a career member of the Foreign Service of Mexico. GERY J. CHICO Senior Partner Chico & Nunes, P.C. Since April 2004, Gery J. Chico has been a senior partner at the Chicago law firm of Chico & Nunes P.C. He has practiced law and represented leading companies in Chicago and the nation over the past 25 years and has held numerous public service posts. Chico was one of the founders of the Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce (now the 1,400-member Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce), and he remains active in many other professional, civic and charitable organizations. DORA CORNELIO Real Estate Tax Attorney Schmidt Salzman & Moran Ltd. Dora Cornelio is a real estate tax attorney with Schmidt Salzman & Moran Ltd. In Chicago. Previously she was an assistant state's attorney for Cook County where she practiced tort and civil rights law. She also currently serves as communications secretary for the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from DePaul University and earned a law degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law in May of 2018. PEDRO DEJESUS Head of International Business Tampico Beverages Inc. Pedro DeJesus is the head of international business and executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary for Tampico Beverages Inc. He is a member of the company's executive leadership team and serves on its board of directors. Tampico is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of flavored drink concentrates. DeJesus' areas of focus include executive leadership and management of the company's global operations, setting global strategy, commercial negotiations, corporate governance, mergers and acquisition, and intellectual property rights management. JOHN R. DE LEON Principal John De Leon & Associates John R. De Leon knew he wanted to become an attorney who fought for justice after seeing the film "To Kill a Mockingbird" when he was young. Today he marks 40 years as a criminal defense attorney. He is the only Latino attorney in his field to be featured in Chicago magazine as a "Super Lawyer" for over a decade. The American Trial Lawyers Association voted him one of the top 100 trial lawyers in 2009, 2010, and 2011. 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