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Global Business Strategies
The risks and
rewards of expanding a business into the global marketplace will be
the topic on Thursday, October 22nd
at 7:00 p.m. when the Hudson Library & Historical Society
presents “Global Business Strategies” with Stephen J. Petras, Jr.
of Baker & Hostetler LLP. The workshop is part of the library’s
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship Research’s
Fall 2009 Entrepreneurship Series.
Mr. Petras,
head of Baker & Hostetler’s International Industry Team, will
discuss legal strategies for developing and managing
foreign operations including direct sales, using representatives,
agents, joint ventures and distributors, dealing with foreign
laws, political and environmental factors and legal risks involved
in such an undertaking and how to manage those risks.
Stephen J.
Petras Jr. is an international business lawyer with extensive
experience counseling clients on domestic as well as
foreign legal issues related to international business transactions.
Mr. Petras has acted as counsel in numerous significant
transactions, including international/global structuring of business
operations for manufacturing, high-tech and services
companies, mergers, acquisitions and international securities
transactions. His practice also includes representation regarding
international regulatory compliance issues and commercial agreements
for joint ventures, product distribution and
development, agency and distributorships, technology licensing, and
sales transactions.
Mr. Petras is
a past president of the Cleveland World Trade Association and was
instrumental in the consolidation of this
organization with the World Trade Center Cleveland, on whose
Advisory Board he serves. Mr. Petras is the past president of
the Greater Cleveland International Lawyers Group and has long been
active in efforts to increase international business
throughout the region. He also serves the United States Department
of Commerce as a member of the Northern Ohio District
Export Council.
To register for this free program, please call
330.653.6658, ext. 1010 or email
askus@hudson.lib.oh.us. |
