Mark Poerio / Paul Hastings LLP
Mr. Poerio is a partner in the Employment Law Department in the Washington D.C. office of Paul Hastings, and is a member of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel. For 25 years, Mr. Poerio has been in private practice with a focus on executive compensation and employee benefit matters, especially from a business, governance, tax, and securities perspective. He works regularly and globally with every Paul Hastings office, and has significant pro bono representations relating to not-for-profit governance, executive compensation, and tax matters. Mr. Poerio is also an adjunct professor with the Georgetown Law School, where he designed and teaches both “Executive Pay and Loyalty” and “The Business and Securities Aspects of Executive Compensation”.

Erika C. Collins / Paul Hastings LLP
Ms. Collins is a partner in Paul Hastings LLP’s Employment Law Department and chairs the firm’s International Employment practice. She provides strategic advice and counseling to multinational employers on a wide range of global employment law and human resources matters. She leads a team of employment lawyers in the firm’s U.S. and non-U.S. offices and has developed a network of international employment counsel to provide assistance worldwide. Ms. Collins represents public and private companies and advises on cross-border employment matters spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America.

Ms. Collins is the editor of the first and second editions of The Employment Law Review, an extensive text dealing with international employment law in 48 countries, and is a frequent speaker at IBA, ABA and state bar meetings and has spoken and written on myriad topics. She has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2010 and 2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America for Labor and Employment Law.

Ms. Collins earned a law degree from the University of California—Davis School of Law, where she received the “American Jurisprudence Award” in Corporations and was a member of the Moot Court Board. She earned an A.B. in English and American Literature from Brown University.

Suzanne Horne / Paul Hastings LLP
Suzanne Horne is a partner in the Employment Law Department of the Paul Hastings London office. She has a broad-ranging practice covering all aspects of employment law and employment-related matters advising both UK and International clients. She provides practical and commercially driven advice on both contentious and non-contentious matters, with a focus on business transfers, outsourcings, insolvencies, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investments and the application of TUPE (UK business transfer legislation). On the international front, Ms. Horne also has extensive experience in cross-border, pan-European and multi-national projects including business reorganization, integrations, redundancies, hiring and firing. Ms. Horne has a special interest in advising employers on employee related data protection and privacy matters, and particular expertise in boardroom disputes, senior executive issues, and high-level litigation involving restrictive covenants.

Ms. Horne graduated from Kings College, University of London in 1995 and is admitted to practice in England and Wales.

Jérémie Gicquel / Paul Hastings LLP
Jérémie Gicquel is an associate in the Paul Hastings' Paris office, and a member of the firm’s Employment and Labor practice. Mr. Gicquel joined Paul Hastings in Paris in September 2004. His practice focuses on corporate employment law for both domestic and international clients with local operations in France, notably in the context of acquisitions and/or restructuring.

Mr. Gicquel graduated from the HEC business school (Master of Science in Management, 2006). He also earned an advanced degree (DESS) in corporate and tax law from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne in 2006. His native language is French, and he is fluent in English.