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Lawyers

Jerome Akman

Work Department

Latin America Team; Corporate and Business Transactions; Finance

Position

Jerry maintains a multidisciplinary international law practice, including work on foreign investment in the United States and abroad (acquisitions and establishment of new companies); general legal representation of foreign companies and their US subsidiaries in connection with matters both within the US and abroad; negotiation of agreements (financial, licensing, distribution and agency and other commercial agreements); defense of foreign clients in US and foreign litigation; protection of foreign creditors’ interests in US bankruptcy proceedings; and matters arising under US trade laws (antidumping, countervailing duty, US customs, trade sanctions, and other import and export restrictions).

Education

Northwestern University; Harvard Law School