Herman Raspé is the current Chair of the World Services Group, a premier global multidisciplinary professional services network of independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. A partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, Herman is an authority in the field of cross-border debt and equity transactions, particularly transactions involving depositary receipts. He is a frequent lecturer on that subject and the regulatory implications on foreign companies who access U.S. capital markets. He represents U.S. financial institutions and non-U.S. companies in cross-border transactions, including in capital markets transactions supporting cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spin-offs and capital restructurings.