| Interlaw Board of Directors | ||
| Jerry Biederman | ||
| Johan Brink | ||
| Raimund Cancola | ||
| Jack Cullen | ||
| Cesar Gustavo Ferrante | ||
| Lai Lam | ||
| Saundra Reed | ||
| Andreas C. Richter | ||
| Jeremy Schrire | ||
| Michael Siebold | ||
| Bill VanderBurgh | ||
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Interlaw Leadership
Jerry Biederman, Chair
Mr. Brink advises on commercial paper issues, syndicated loans, securitizations, derivatives and participants in the securities lending industry. He led the firm's team in advising arrangers, lead managers or issuers in connection with several recent corporate domestic medium term note programmes, as well as listed bond issues by several prostates, water utilities, Government controlled companies and Metropolitan Municipalities.
He joined enwc following a 1986/1987 clerkship. He is a member of the Vienna Bar Association, German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic, the Czech Republic Bar Association, and the Austrian Business Club of Budapest. He is fluent in German and English.
Jack Cullen is the former managing partner of Foster Pepper (Seattle) and was unanimously selected for the Board of Directors in 2005. An international insolvency attorney, he represents the entire range of participants in creditor / debtor law. He has represented both creditors and debtors in reorganizations, as well as trustees, creditor and bondholder committees, and buyers of assets in bankruptcy cases. Admitted to practice in Washington State as well as three U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Tax Court, he holds degrees from the University of Puget Sound and Western Washington State University. He is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and noted by Chambers, Best Lawyers in America and Washington Law & Politics magazine as a top attorney in his field. A licensed pilot and certified scuba diver, Mr. Cullen is an outdoorsman who is also devoted to Seattle-based civic organizations.
Education: Universidad Católica Argentina (LL.B., 1976). Academy of American and International Law, The Center for American and International Law (formerly, The Southwestern Legal Foundation, University of Texas) Dallas, 1989. Assistant Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, Graduate and Postgraduate Courses, Universidad Católica Argentina, 1996. Professor of Labor Law, Postgraduate Courses, Universidad de Palermo. Former advisor to the Minister of Labor (1981 1982). Former Settlement Secretary at the National Ministry of Labor. Vice President of the Industrial Relations Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina. Member of various Wage Bargaining Committees. Former Head of the Personnel Department of Borgward Argentina S.A. Member: Buenos Aires and San Isidro Bar Associations; Argentine Labor Law and Social Security Association. Languages: Practice Areas
Ms. Lam frequently advises on selection and suitability of trade marks for use and registration, proper use of trademarks, opposition and rectification proceedings; drafting and registering trade mark license and user agreements and assignment of trade mark rights. Over the years of practice, Lai has handled large trade mark portfolios for clients regionally and internationally, in both private and public sectors and for multinational companies in various fields including entertainment, telecommunication, construction, tobacco, food and beverage, and has acted for leading international companies operating in fashion and luxury goods. She is a member of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association and the Licensing Executives Society of China in Hong Kong Chapter. She is a graduate of Liverpool (John Moores) University, England LLB (Hons), 1985 and Chester College of Law, Chester, England - Law Society Finals, 1985 – 1986. Ms. Lam is fluent in English and Cantonese.
Andreas C. Richter, Board Member Andreas Richter has been a partner of Blumenthal Richter & Sumet since 1996 and has been managing partner since 1999. He works on a broad range of foreign investment and development projects in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Andreas has extensive experience in advising SMEs and multi-national companies and knows their different risk profiles and commercial needs. Andreas has worked both as a team member and a team leader on the preparation, negotiation and implementation of numerous projects in the region, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. Andreas represents clients in complex investment and commercial transactions and regularly provides specialist advice to leading European and Japanese law firms. His experience in Thailand includes representation of clients in the automotive, hospitality and financial services sector, as well as industrial manufacturing, intellectual property, chemical products and construction. Andreas is a German national. He is fluent in German, English and speaks conversational Thai. Andreas obtained his law degree from the University of Hamburg and is a member of the Hamburg Bar Association and the Inter Pacific Bar Association.
Jeremy Schrire heads SJ Berwin’s Commerce & Technology Group, specializing in commercial agreements and related intellectual property matters. He is particularly involved in the fields of agency, distribution, licensing, technology transfer, R&D, marketing and franchise arrangements, primarily with an international focus. He is also involved in all facets of commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights. He is a regular speaker at conferences in these fields, both in the UK and abroad. Mr. Schrire is listed as an expert in the Legal Experts Guide, and by Legal 500 in both Intellectual Property and Life Sciences. He is also listed as "a leading lawyer" by Global Counsel and Who’s Who in Healthcare and is also recommended by PLC Which Lawyer?. He was recently described by Legal 500 as someone of whom "clients cannot speak highly enough". Mr. Schrire’s Interlaw Board portfolio includes Marketing, Sponsorships and Conferences.
Michael Siebold is the founder and managing partner of Arnecke Siebold (Frankfurt) and was admitted to the bar in 1987. He is the founding co-chair of Interlaw’s Europe/Middle East/Africa Real Estate Special Business Team and was appointed to the Interlaw Board of Directors in December 2006. He studied at Ruhruniversität Bochum, L-M-U München, London School of Economics, London, the University of Toronto, Toronto (LL.M. 1986: Postemployment Restraint Agreements, Master Thesis, Toronto, 1987), Madison; and articled at courts in Munich and Landshut. He writes and lectures in English and German, and is an authority in legal project management, financing, and investment in Germany as well as mergers and acquisitions, sports law and stadium management. Strongly linked to North America's business world for many years, Michael Siebold is in charge of several national and international mandates and projects in the cultural and entertainment sector particularly in the sports area, the innovative building of arenas, and the international real property market.
Bill practices in the area of corporate law, serving the Canadian legal needs of foreign-controlled multinational clients. He has been involved in numerous public and private cross-border transactions providing structural, corporate and general advice with respect to major and other international transactions. Bill acts as a director and officer for a number of Canadian subsidiaries of foreign multinationals. He has represented foreign-based clients in connection with highly sensitive matters under the former Foreign Investment Review Act (Canada), the current Investment Canada Act and in connection with other matters involving foreign direct investment in Canada. Bill assists foreign-based clients with merger and other competition law matters arising under the Competition Act (Canada). He advises foreign multinationals and their Canadian subsidiaries in connection with corporate reorganization and general corporate matters. Bill also advises foreign arbitrageurs in connection with timing and other risk issues arising in tender offers and takeover bids involving Canadian corporations.
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