JOIN US FOR THE PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP 23rd ANNIVERSARY VIRTUAL GALA
Tuesday, October 6
6PM ET
A VIRTUAL EVENT WITH
REAL IMPACT
In a year like no other, please join us for our 23rd anniversary celebration—virtually! We’ll celebrate our collective passion for pro bono, how our work empowers nonprofits, and the impact we’ve made on our communities for more than two decades.
Meet the 2020 Pro Bono Champions
MARTIN LIPTON
Founding Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Learn More
Bristol Myers Squibb
Law Department
Meet the Gala Chairs
SPECIAL GUESTS
Exclusive Martin Lipton Interview
Andrea Mitchell
Journalist/Anchor/Commentator, NBC News
Meet Our Generous Supporters
Chairman
David Yawman
EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
PepsiCo
Vice Chairman
Peter A. Gutermann
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (Ret.)
Barnes Group, Inc.
Vice Chairman
John M. Liftin
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
(Formerly General Counsel and Managing Director, D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.)
President
John L. Sander
Jackson Lewis P.C.
(Formerly Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Merck & Co., Inc.)
Secretary
Anahaita N. Kotval
Chief Executive Officer
Lifting Up Westchester
(Formerly General Counsel, RBS Securities)
Treasurer
Jonathan Mothner
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Synchrony Financial
Sylvia A. Ayler
Director, Legal
Intellectual Property Group
Merck & Co., Inc.
Evan Charkes
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel
Global Wealth & Investment Management
Bank of America
Eric I Cohen
Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel (Ret.)
Terex Corporation
Burt M. Fealing
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Southwire Company
John P. Frantz
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Verizon Business Group
Daniel J. Goldstein
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Pitney Bowes
Rady Johnson
Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance and Risk Officer
Pfizer, Inc
Ann M. Kappler
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Candace Kronholm
Vice President and General Counsel
Pratt & Whitney
Katherine B. Lipton
Managing Director & Associate General Counsel
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Cathy Lueders
Assistant General Counsel, SVP – US Markets
Mastercard
Greg Nehro
General Counsel – Americas
BNY Mellon
Mark Nordstrom
Senior Counsel – Labor and Employment Law (Ret.)
General Electric Company
Edward J. Sebold
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel: Watson Health and
Global Head of Litigation
IBM Corporation
Richard H. Walker
King & Spalding, LLP
(Formerly Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank AG)
Director Emeritus
Benjamin W. Heineman Jr.
Distinguished Senior Fellow
Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
VICE CHAIRS
Neil Barr
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Joshua R. Cammaker
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Rady Johnson
Pfizer Inc
Katherine B. Lipton
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jonathan Mothner
Synchrony Financial
Jacquelyn Sumer
Bristol Myers Squibb
Daniel E. Wolf
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Steering Committee
Sylvia A. Ayler
Merck & Co., Inc.
Scott A. Barshay
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
F. Dominic Cerrito
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Frank R. Jimenez
Raytheon Technologies
Ann M. Kappler
Prudential Financial, Inc.
Candace A. Kronholm
Pratt & Whitney
Kevin G. Lauri
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Lori A. Martin
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Jami Wintz McKeon
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Greg Nehro
BNY Mellon
Joseph L. Noga
Jenner & Block LLP
Douglas L. Peterson
S&P Global
Faiza J. Saeed
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Dino S. Sangiamo
Venable LLP
Edward J. Sebold
IBM Corporation
Michael J. Wagner
Baker McKenzie
Richard H. Walker
King & Spalding, LLP
David Yawman
PepsiCo
As of September 30, 2020
GALA PLANNING COMMITTEE
Joshua R. Cammaker
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Laura Caponi
Bristol Myers Squibb
Candace A. Kronholm
Pratt & Whitney
Katherine B. Lipton
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Cathy Lueders
Mastercard
Jonathan Mothner
Synchrony Financial
Edward J. Sebold
IBM Corporation
Richard H. Walker
King & Spalding
David Yawman
PepsiCo
PRESENTING SPONSOR
LEAD SPONSORS
BENEFACTORS
PATRONS
PARTNERS
Arnold & Porter
Bartlit Beck LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Comcast NBCUniversal
Covington & Burling LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Dechert LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
Jones Day
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
McCarter & English, LLP
Pitney Bowes
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Verizon
Williams & Connolly LLP
ADVOCATES
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Bank of America
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Deloitte
Discovery, Inc.
DLA Piper LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher
Diane and Rady Johnson
Eve Konstan and Jonathan Mothner
Mastercard
New York Life
Proskauer
PwC
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
Margaret and David Yawman
ASSOCIATES
Axiom
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Chubb Limited
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Day Pitney LLP
Epiq
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Anahaita N. Kotval and Zubeen Shroff
Terri and John Liftin
Katherine Lipton and Alex Lipman
Moelis & Company
Reed Smith LLP
Grace and John Sander
Terex Corporation
CONTRIBUTORS
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Blank Rome LLP
Butler Snow LLP
Gail and Eric Cohen
Cynthia and Peter Gutermann
Ann Kappler and Mark Herlihy
Littler
Cathy Lueders
Diane and Edward Sebold
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P
Thompson Hine LLP
FRIENDS
Leonard Andrew
Sylvia Ayler
Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP
Daniela Combe
William Despo
Deutsche Bank
Dun & Bradstreet
Kaye and Burt Fealing
Mary-Jane Foster
FrankGecker LLP
John P. Frantz
Nancy George-Michalson
Nancy Goodman
Guardian Life
Jennifer Hauge
Tiffany Hubbard
Harvey Kaish
Keesal, Young & Logan
Carolyn Lake
Gary and Kathy Leeds
Karen Maciorowski
Marjorie Madfis
Sarah Monaghan
Julie Murphy
Joni and Mark Nordstrom
Kenneth Novenstern
Paul Hastings LLP
Quest Diagnostics
Laura Sklar and Daniel J. Goldstein
Spectrum Designs Foundation
Drew Thatcher
Katherine Vockins
The Westchester Bank
Joel Wolfson
Stas Zakharenko
As of September 30, 2020
Now more than ever,
Pro Bono Partnership needs your support.
In these difficult times, your generous contribution will help us continue to provide much-needed free legal help to nonprofit organizations throughout the tristate region. It’s easy to pledge your support through Givergy, a trusted partner to some of the biggest charities in the U.S.
Show your support by bidding on a series of exclusive autographed memorabilia from New York Yankees star outfielder, Aaron Judge.
Volunteers of the
Year Awards
Pro Bono Partnership’s dedicated volunteers are the reason we’re able to provide essential legal services to tristate-area nonprofits. We are thrilled to honor our 10 VOTY recipients and share and celebrate their inspiring stories!
Sandy Leung is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. She leads the worldwide Law Department and is responsible for a wide range of legal areas including intellectual property, commercial and regulatory law, litigation, corporate governance, securities and transactions including licensing, acquisitions and divestitures. She also has responsibility for Compliance & Ethics, Environment, Health & Safety, Corporate Security and Corporate Philanthropy.
Charles D. Gill is Special Advisor to the CEO of Raytheon Technologies. He previously served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of United Technologies Corporation from 2007-2020. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and General Counsel of Carrier Corporation from 2005-2007 and as Executive Assistant to the Chairman & CEO of UTC from 2002-2005. He joined UTC in 1994, and has held various legal positions throughout the company, including Vice President, Legal Affairs for Carrier’s Asia Pacific Operations based in Singapore and Sydney, Australia and Assistant Counsel for Pratt & Whitney, Large Commercial Engines based in Singapore. Prior to joining UTC, he was an Associate in the Trial and Appellate Department at the law firm of Robinson & Cole based in Hartford, Connecticut. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School, where he was an Editor of the Boston College Law Review. He clerked for Justice Robert D. Glass on the Connecticut Supreme Court. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar, and is a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Greater Hartford Arts Council.
Aaron Judge is a Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees. He was named the American League Rookie of the Year in 2017, and broke Mark McGwire’s Rookie home run record hitting 52 home runs. He is a 2x All-Star and won the 2017 Home Run Derby. He started the All Rise Foundation that aims to inspire children through sport to become responsible citizens.
Anne, a former attorney general of New Jersey, assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, and federal prosecutor, is a lawyer with Lowenstein Sandler and divides her time between the firm’s Tech Group and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. She is also a professor of practice and a Distinguished Scholar at New York University School of Law. Anne applies long-standing prosecutorial experience involving highly sensitive matters to effectively counsel clients on a wide range of matters. Anne is a member of the American Law Institute and is on the board of directors of Covenant House International.
ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” is the network’s leading voice on U.S. foreign policy and international diplomacy. A pioneer in her field, Ms. Mitchell is known for her tenacity and veteran analysis as she pursues answers, interviews newsmakers, and traverses the globe to report on the State Department. A native of New York, Ms. Mitchell serves as chair of the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Gridiron Club.