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	Brian D. Krantz Admitted to California Bar, 1983 International Business Transactions, Technology Transfer, IP Licensing, Corporate Litigation and Advising email

Brian is a California corporate and business lawyer with over 25 years experience practicing law in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Sydney, Australia. Brian’s practice is focused on general business, corporate and commercial matters with an emphasis on international legal services for small to medium sized technology and aerospace companies doing business in the U.S. and overseas. Brian’s practice covers international transactions, including joint ventures and strategic agreements, government contracts, intellectual property and technology development and licensing, US export control laws, and general commercial and corporate matters, including distribution arrangements, partnerships and shareholder arrangements, acquisitions, and due diligence. Brian acts as general counsel to technology companies, and also counsels and provides case management services for complex U.S. and foreign litigation, arbitration and mediation. After starting his career as a business litigator in the Los Angeles office of the New York firm Hill Betts & Nash, and then as a corporate attorney with a Los Angeles boutique practice, Brian spent two years as a foreign lawyer in Tokyo with Anderson, Mori & Rabinowitz, where his practice concentrated on international business and technology, intellectual property transfers and securities matters for multinational corporations. Between 1989 and 1994, Brian practiced in the Sydney office of Minter Ellison, where he is also admitted as an Australian solicitor, working primarily on international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, commercial matters, structured finance and capital raising for large Australian and multinational corporations. For the twelve years before joining Sassoon & Cymrot in 2008, Brian had his own practice in Los Angeles, California. Examples of Projects -Strategic agreements between US and Australian companies for space surveillance/missile shield technology. -Singapore high tech military equipment procurement contract. Australian -German joint venture for development of electro optical technology. -Australian joint venture for development and marketing of mobile force protection technology. -Austrailan joint venture for development and marketing of mobile force protection technology. -Foreign company acquisition of US defense contractor’s military business. -Establishment of US e-commerce social networking business by foreign software development company. -Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance by US defense contractor for agents and commission sales representatives in approximately 30 countries. -Foreign marketing operations for US aerospace company in the Middle East, Europe and Asia/Pacific. -Managing US federal court litigation, Japanese arbitration, and private mediation over Chinese joint venture dispute.
Education:
Brian received a BA in 1976 from the University of California at Berkeley, an MSc in 1978 from the London School of Economics, and a JD from Loyola Law School, Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles. In law school, where he received a Dean’s Scholarship, Brian was a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team, on the staff of the Loyola International & Comparative Law Journal, and a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society.
Court Admissions:
Brian is an active member of the California State Bar, and is admitted to practice before the Federal District Courts for the Central and Eastern Districts of California. Brian is also admitted to practice law in New South Wales, Australia (currently inactive).
Memberships:
Brian has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Law Section of the State Bar of California since 1999, having become an Advisor Emeritus in 2004 after serving for five years as Editor-In-Chief of the section’s journal, The California International Practitioner, and as section Co-Vice Chair. Brian currently is Co-Chair of the Bilateral Investment Treaty and Development Committee of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA).
Lectures
Brian has lectured extensively on international business law topics, including as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and as a visiting lecturer at Southwestern University School of Law.
Articles
Issue Spotting in International Contracts, (California State Bar Annual Meeting, Monterey, California - November 2002) Introduction to International Practice, California State Bar Annual Meeting, Monterey, California - October 1998 Prospectus Due Diligence Under the Corporations Law(with Leigh R. Brown & Norman O'Bryan), 2nd Annual Due Diligence Workshop, Business Law Education Center, Sydney - October 1992 (adopted as registration guideline by Australian Securities Commission, Canberra Office) How the United States Taxes Capital Gains, Editorial, The Australian Financial Review - March 29, 1990.