About
I am an international attorney who allows Western organizations navigate Asia s laws. I am a founding father of Harris Bricken, an global regulation office with attorneys in Barcelona, Beijing, Los Angeles, Madrid, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle. I am an global legal professional/worldwide attorney who in the main represents companies doing commercial enterprise in emerging market nations. It has taken me a few years to build my community, and it takes steady communique and travel to keep it. My paintings has been as various as securing the discharge of improperly held helicopters in Papua New Guinea, setting up a legal framework to move slag from Canada to Poland s indoors, overseeing loads of litigation and arbitration matters in Korea, supporting a person avoid terrorism charges in Japan, and seizing fish product in China to gather on a debt. I become named as one among most effective 3 Washington State Amazing Lawyers in International Law, I am AV rated by way of Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory (its maximum rating), I am rated 10.zero via AVVO.com (its maximum rating), and I am a SuperLawyer. I am a common author and public speaker on doing business in Asia and I continuously journey among the US and Asia. I am also the lead creator of the award prevailing China Law Blog (www.chinalawblog.com). Forbes Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Business Week, The National Law Journal, The Washington Post, The ABA Journal, The Economist, Newsweek, and Inside Counsel have all interviewed me regarding numerous elements of my international law exercise. I am licensed in Washington, Illinois, and Alaska. I cognizance on putting in/registering corporations remote places (through WFOEs, Rep Offices or Joint Ventures), drafting contracts (NDAs, OEM Agreements, licensing, distribution, etc.), protective IP (logos, copyrights), and overseeing M&A transactions. Above all else, I am a problem solver for Western companies that function across the world. › ›
Location
Legal Issues
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Intellectual Property
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Certificates
Languages
- French: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions



Experience
- Founding has membership
Harris Bricken
2000 - Associate/Partner
LeSourd & Patten
1989 - Associate
Kirkland & Ellis
1984
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