Mr. Sternberg serves on the Firm's Board of Managers.

Mr. Sternberg was a partner in the prominent international law firm, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, from 1998 to 2011 and is now a Senior Counsel to the firm. Over his 30-year career as a corporate lawyer, including five years as a resident partner of Cleary Gottlieb's Paris office, Mr. Sternberg counseled a broad range of U.S. and international clients across the spectrum of corporate issues and transactions, in particular mergers and acquisitions and matters of corporate governance.

Mr. Sternberg also serves as a Senior Advisor to the Genting Group, a leading Asian industrial group with interests in leisure & hospitality, cruising, power generation, agriculture, property development, biotechnology and oil and gas exploration.

Mr. Sternberg has been recognized as a leading corporate governance and M&A lawyer by, among others, Chambers USA, the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers. He has been a long-time member and is the former Chairman of the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests.

Mr. Sternberg earned a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Columbia Law School and a Bachelor or Arts degree from Yale University.