Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (2/5/26)

This is a hybrid program with a webcast and in-person option at The Chicago Bar Association (321 S. Plymouth Ct, Chicago, IL 60604). Please indicate if you will attend in-person when registering where indicated. 

Topic: Getting to Yes: Making M&A Disputes Mediate-able

Speakers:

David Cellitti, Shareholder, Buchanan Ingersoll, Tampa

Mergers & Acquisitions group practice co-leader; an experienced corporate law attorney who helps clients navigate everything from middle-market M&A and other significant transactions to strategic planning, compliance and day-to-day operations; also provides insight while serving as outside general counsel.

Martin Roth, Esq., Partner, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago

Litigation practice partner; a trial lawyer whose diverse litigation practice spans M&A disputes, partnership disputes, employment matters, privacy and data breach class actions, and other complex commercial disputes; also has an active and expanding sports litigation practice.

Hon. Heather Welch (ret.), JAMS, Indianapolis and Chicago

Neutral - Mediator and Arbitrator; prior 23-year career on the Marion Superior Court (Indianapolis) bench, including service as an Indiana commercial court judge for almost eight years and the presiding judge of the Marion Superior Court during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Moderator: John Levitske, Partner, HKA, Forensic Accounting & Commercial Damages, Chicago

Chair, Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Chicago Bar Association

(IL MCLE credit for live meeting only. No MCLE credit for on demand webcast.)

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