About

Highlighted as being an ‘outstanding lawyer’, René Mario Scherr leads a team of five market lawyers and one paralegal to advise a large geographical region covering the markets of Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and several other large countries in Asia. Commended by peers for his exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to settle difficult high-stakes negotiations, Scherr has been described as an ‘outstanding communicator and advocate’ who ‘takes a thoughtful and strategic approach to problems’. Scherr has established a company-wide reputation as a trusted business lawyer, utilising skills developed over the duration of his six years at a top-tier international US law firm and 15 years in-house with multinational companies. At Tetra Pak, a multinational food packaging and processing company, Scherr runs a global function where he is responsible for legal dealings with European and American multinational customers. Prior to his time at Tetra Pak, Scherr served as senior counsel for internal and external global semiconductor manufacturing at Texas Instruments Incorporated for eight years. It was during this tenure that he successfully directed and served as lead witness in a landmark $55m bankruptcy and arbitration award enforcement matters in Bangkok courts over a two-year period. Scherr was also central to spearheading the electronics industry effort to halt anti-consumer legislation by lobbying trade associations and politicians at the state and federal level.