Mr.Barden is a retired partner of Sidley Austin LLP, an international law lfirm, where he served as Chairman of the Management Committee (2014-2022) and a member of its Executive Committee (1999-2022). During 40 years of legal practice, Mr. Barden advised clients across diverse industries on a wide range of public and private kcompany transactions, both domestically and cross-border. His principal areas of practice were mergers and acquisitions, securities/corporate finance and strategic counseling/corporate governance. He has extensive experience working with Boards of Directors on complex corporate transactions, and governance and compliance matters. Mr. Barden also serves on the boards of various civic and educational organizations.