Areas of Practice Emphasis

Prominent Assignments

  • Regularly counsel international and domestic clients concerning wide range of corporate issues regarding U.S.-based business
  • Corporate counseling and contract negotiations involving joint ventures, strategic alliances, mergers/acquisitions, and related agreements
  • Antitrust and trade regulation counseling
  • Drafting and negotiating wide variety of contracts and licenses regarding design, development, maintenance, sale, warranty, and related matters associated with automotive vehicles, systems, and components, at all levels
  • Counsel for intellectual property matters, such as:
    - intellectual property matters for selling corporation in $1 billion divestiture;
    - joint venture agreements for design, development and/or supply of products such as automotive seating systems, recliners, brake lines and safety system components (air bag inflators), and other technologies such as thin-film solar/photovoltaic cells and nickel-metal-hydride batteries;
    - product development and technology licensing agreements;
    - OEM, tier one/lower tier purchase order/supply agreement terms and conditions, nondisclosure - nonanalysis agreements, product/technology development agreements, and related matters;
    - intellectual property matters in troubled supplier/workout situations including accommodation/license agreements;
    - intellectual property matters in agreements with the government, such as an OEM hybrid vehicle project with DOE, and agreements involving universities and USCAR;
    - agreements for design/fabrication of prototype vehicles; and
    - clickwrap license agreements including, for example, vehicle diagnostic systems and data for specialty equipment manufacturers

Education

  • J.D. (magna cum laude), Harvard Law School, 1974
  • Law Clerk: Honorable J. Edward Lumbard, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1974-1975
  • B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude), Amherst College, 1971

Admitted to Practice

  • Michigan, 1981
  • New York, 1975

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Member, Board of Trustees, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston, Illinois)

Publications and Presentations

  • American Bar Association, Section of International Law & Practice, Co-editor (with David Goldsweig, formerly of General Motors and Delphi Automotive Systems), International Joint Ventures: A Practical Approach to Working with Foreign Investors in the U.S. and Abroad (2nd Edition), 1990

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