Practice Areas: International Commercial Transactions

Global businesses, large or small, domestic or foreign, all benefit from the high caliber staff of our International Commercial Transactions Group. The Group includes attorneys who are members of the Bar of various European jurisdictions and can advise clients on the laws of those jurisdictions. The International Group regularly represents foreign corporate clients with business ventures in the United States, as well as US clients overseas. (See the section describing our Emerging Markets Practice Group.) The International Transactions Group works closely with foreign clients as they start their business operations in the United States, by assisting them in organizing and structuring their business, in creating subsidiaries throughout the United States, in negotiating and drafting business agreements, such as licensing, distribution, sales representative, employment and consulting agreements, and helping such clients in solving the legal problems associated with their business ventures.

Many of the Firm’s attorneys are multilingual. German, Italian, French, Spanish and Romanian speaking attorneys are available for our clients.

All areas of international law and commerce are represented, including mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, infrastructure redevelopment and project finance, as well as representation before the US International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

The Firm’s affiliated office in Romania provides a full range of sophisticated legal services throughout Southeastern Europe, having engaged in some of the largest and most significant transactions in the region in privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, banking, securities and real estate development.