Member Directory

Ifti Ahmad
Senior Legal Counsel
Ifti is a senior commercial lawyer who joined Marshall Denning in November 2018. With ten years’ experience in the outsourcing, insurance and healthcare sectors, Ifti’s background includes working as legal director at Williams Lea Tag, a global outsourcing group part of the Deutsche Post DHL Group. Prior he spent time at Cardif Pinnacle, the UK insurance arm of BNP Paribas; Elekta, a global radiotherapy equipment manufacturer; Circle, a private hospital company and specialised in commercial healthcare including a secondment to the Department of Health at TPP Law, now Geldards LLP.
Region: EMEA
Sam Aziz
Counsel
Sam is a transactional attorney with a focus on complex commercial transactions. He currently supports IT outsourcing transactions within the healthcare, finance, manufacturing, retail and local government sectors. In addition to providing legal solutions, Sam develops technology and business solutions for his client’s world-wide initiatives.
Region: Americas
Dena Benzie
Legal Director
Dena is a transactional lawyer specialising in negotiating the legal and commercial impact of transitioning people in connection with the performance or cessation of services. She has experience of ITO and BPO in both private and public sectors, including issues associated with public sector and defined benefit pensions.
Region: EMEA
Antonio Bernabeu-López
Sr. Counsel
Antonio is an experienced legal counsel who is result oriented and is used to handle and coordinating large complex IT projects/transactions, both locally and internationally. He is a trusted advisor of senior business management teams in the IT Sector.
Region: EMEA
Sara Bickers
Sr. Counsel
Sara is a commercial IT/IP/Outsourcing lawyer with over twelve years post-qualification experience in Australia and the UK, in private practice and in-house. Her experience spans a broad range of high-value transactional work in Technology and Outsourcing, as well as litigation, intellectual property, privacy and employment law. She also has a degree in Computer Science and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
Region: Asia Pacific
Nick Boymal
VP, Legal
Nick leads our legal services teams across the Asia Pacific Region. Prior to joining Marshall Denning, Nick was a Vice President at Hewlett Packard, serving served in various senior legal management roles at Hewlett-Packard in the Asia Pacific region. Nick is also an experienced deal lawyer and negotiator of numerous large IT outsourcing transactions throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Region: Asia Pacific
Gabriel “Dino” Cieri
Sr. Counsel
Gabriel brings over twenty-five years of legal advisory, negotiation and contracting with an emphasis on (1) software licensing, services and hosting and (2) third party administration regulation, compliance and contracts.
Region: Americas
Daniel DiGregorio
Sr. Counsel
Daniel has worked for the consulting sector during the past twenty years and has experience in structuring, drafting and negotiating a wide variety of complex contracts, including professional services and strategic alliances/corporate partnering. He has provided first-line legal support and advice to business units on risks associated with a wide variety of consulting engagements, including custom software development, implementation of software solutions, e-business and other web-based initiatives.
Region: Americas
Timothy Dreher
Sr. Counsel
Timothy is a general corporate and commercial contracts attorney with extensive and diverse in-house and private practice experience analyzing, structuring, negotiating, and closing transactions and providing strategic business advice, focusing on technology products and services.
Region: Americas
Kirsten Goebbels-Pazic
Sr. Counsel
Kirsten is a transactional lawyer, with a focus on complex IT transactions and has particular experience in drafting and negotiation large contracts in all business sectors. Before joining Marshall Denning, she was Principal Counsel with Computer Sciences Corporation (“CSC”) and supported its business in the Central Region for twenty years.
Region: EMEA
Ian Gray
VP, Business Operations
Ian is a commercial attorney with 17 years of technology and services contracting experience encompassing sales, start-ups, disputes, extensions, and contract wind-down. He has led legal and contracting teams across the Americas, Europe and Africa with a focus on team excellence aligned with our client’s business results. Ian recently returned to Colorado from a two year leadership assignment in London.
Region: Americas
Dimitar Ikonomov
Counsel
Dimitar is a commercial lawyer with a focus on both public and private sector transactions in French and Russian speaking countries. He is member of the Privacy and Data Protection team since its Bulgarian establishment. As part of this team, Dimitar is engaged daily in various data privacy matters . Dimitar holds a second LL.M. in Management of Organizations from Paris-Sud University, France.
Region: EMEA
Alexander Ivanchev
Counsel
Alexander is an international lawyer with experience in European Union, international, and IT law. His role as Counsel at Marshall Denning is to provide support for Italy, advising the business on legal matters and reviewing various documentation. Alexander also supports deals in the Netherlands and is actively involved in the Ethics and Compliance Office's Due diligence and Anti-corruption activities. Alexander studied in four different countries (England, France, Netherlands and Italy) before obtaining his LL.M. in law from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. Notably, he speaks several languages , enabling him to add value in the international team of Marshall Denning.
Region: EMEA
Nikolay Ivanov
Counsel
Nikolay is a corporate and transactional attorney specializing in, technology . He has an extensive and diversified professional experience in international law firms as well as in-house positions at commercial banks, investment intermediaries and asset management companies. Nikolay’s role as Counsel at Marshall Denning includes overseeing commercial transactions as well as managing a wide range of corporate matters . Nikolay holds an LL.M. in European and International Business Law from University of Vienna and a post-graduate qualification in U.S. Intellectual Property Law from Stanford University Law School.
Region: EMEA
Ivan Karadobrev
Counsel
Ivan is a lawyer with experience including pharmaceutical, European Unio, and IT law. His current role as Counsel at Marshall Denning includes providing legal support for Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, business advice and legal review of contractual documents. He also supportsSouth America for certain tasks . Ivan holds an LL.M. in Law and Public Administration from the University of Seville, and a post-graduate qualification in European Studies from the University of Seville.
Region: EMEA