USA
Mergers & Acquisition
Publishing
June 2011
Vol. 4, No. 15, Spring 2011
Kenneth Thompson
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Ken Thompson is the Global Chief Legal Officer and Senior Vice President for LexisNexis Legal & Professional. He is a member of the Management Committee and the principal legal advisor to the Global CEO.
Ken joined LexisNexis in 2001 after 15 years of private practice, and he is admitted in Ohio and Kentucky as well as to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Tax Court.
Ken is based in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a member of the International, American, Ohio, Kentucky and Cincinnati Bar Associations. He is currently the co-chair of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the International Bar Association and is a member of the Corporate Pro Bono Advisory Board, a pro bono partnership between ACC and PBI.
Ken frequently speaks on a range of legal issues, including best practices for in-house attorneys, intellectual property, acquisitions and divestitures, corporate responsibility and corporate pro bono.
Sam Snider
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Sam Snider is Vice President and Lead Acquisition Counsel for LexisNexis. Sam's practice focuses on LexisNexis' global merger, acquisition and divestiture activities. Sam leads LexisNexis internal and external legal teams, and coordinates between divisional management teams and global LexisNexis management, on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures by all of LexisNexis' divisions, including numerous recent acquisitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Sam practiced in the M&A department of the Atlanta office of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, a large international law firm. He is a frequent writer and speaker on corporate law and M&A matters and has been named a Georgia Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers-Rising Star Edition. Sam is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Georgia Bar Association. In his free time, Sam is an avid whitewater kayaker, motorcycle enthusiast and home-brewer.
LexisNexis
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LexisNexis® is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis® and Nexis® services. A member of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis serves customers in more than 100 countries with more than 15,000 employees worldwide.
USA
Mergers & Acquisition
Publishing
June 2011
Vol. 4, No. 15, Spring 2011