Mr. Wight has extensive experience representing banks and other institutional investors in complex financing transactions, particularly in domestic and cross-border media and telecommunications transactions. Mr. Wight also has experience in corporate restructurings and workouts, leveraged acquisitions, tax-oriented financings and letters of credit.

 

Mr. Wight is a 1971 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, a 1974 graduate of the London School of Economics, where he received his M.Sc., and a 1975 graduate of Columbia University, where he earned his law degree. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

“Why I’d like to be involved…”

I perceive this as a great opportunity to help focus on the kinds of health and medicine related legal issues that confront vulnerable populations.  I view it also as a great opportunity to assist your organization in the development of more intelligent regulation of bioethics issues in a manner that is consistent with our nation's traditions of constitutional freedoms and individual choice.

Sally Agel
Sally Agel is a partner in the litigation and arbitration group of the Los Angeles, California office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.  Ms. Agel’s legal practice includes a variety of complex reinsurance and insurance matters, and she has been actively involved in reinsurance and insurance litigation and dispute resolution for more than ten years.  She also handles business disputes involving contract interpretation and breach; fraud; unfair business practices; breaches of fiduciary duties; constitutional violations; and bankruptcy and restructuring issues.  Ms. Agel has been involved in numerous trial and appellate cases as well as mediation and arbitration proceedings.

 

Ms. Agel frequently publishes and speaks, including on topics affecting the reinsurance and insurance industries.  She is involved in recruiting for Milbank and co-chairs the firm’s Litigation Training Committee.  Ms. Agel has worked on a variety of pro bono matters, including adoptions.

 

Ms. Agel is a member of the Bars of the State of California, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California.  She received a B.A. in Biology magna cum laude from the University of California at San Diego and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law.  In 1992, Ms. Agel served as the extern to the Hon. Frederic W. Allen, Chief Justice, Vermont State Supreme Court.

“Why I’d like to be involved…”

I am interested in working with the Women's Bioethics Project because as a lawyer with a Biology degree and a mother, and having been adopted as an infant, I have long held an interest in issues involving bioethics and the law, especially those concerning women's health and reproduction.

Elizabeth Besio Hardin
Elizabeth Besio Hardin is a partner in the Global Finance Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. Ms. Hardin has extensive experience in securitizing financial and hard assets in both domestic and cross-border transactions.  She represents issuers, under¬writers, swap counterparties, institutional investors, and structuring agents.

 

Ms. Hardin has acted as transaction counsel in many innovative transactions, including the first international securitization of forward oil sales, securitizing receivables generated from future sales of crude oil from Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Nigeria and Trinidad; ABS CDOs, issuing term debt, asset backed commercial paper and equity securities and credit enhanced with derivative liquidity facilities; and Mutual Fee Fund Trust Asset-Backed Notes, securitizing 12b-1 distribution fees.  She also has significant expertise in international securities transactions, mortgage-backed obligations, aircraft ticket securitizations and credit card securitizations.