Our International Group provides a broad range of legal services to domestic clients doing business overseas and foreign clients transacting business in the US. Our lawyers have extensive experience in handling a variety of sophisticated international matters, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property licensing, overseas manufacturing operations, agency and distributorship arrangements, construction agreements, inbound and outbound capital investments, joint ventures, outsourcing, immigration, aircraft equipment acquisitions and product liability. We have handled such matters throughout North and South America, Europe, the Pacific Rim and other Asian countries, and in Australia.

Our relationships with leading overseas law firms enhance our ability to serve our clients worldwide. Eckert Seamans is the Pennsylvania member of Lex Mundi, the leading international association of large independent law firms in every state of the US and almost every foreign jurisdiction. We are also a member of the State Capital Global Law Firm Group, comprising independent law firms with offices in each US state capital. Our global reach and the broad expertise of our lawyers enable us, as a mid-sized East Coast firm, to provide cost-effective and responsive services to our clients on international matters.

Representative recent international matters in which we have acted as counsel include:

• A significant M&A transaction in Australia
• International hotel developments and joint ventures in Russia, Mexico, Western Europe and Central America
• Representation of airlines in China, Europe and the Middle East
• Representation of Middle Eastern and North African governments in politically sensitive litigation
• Investments by Australian venture capital firms in a US technology company
• International agency distributorship agreements for a US telecommunications products manufacturer
• Strategic operational and tax advice to a US importer of electronic products
• Representation of a UK technology company in establishing US operations
• Establishment of UK subsidiary for a US service provider
• Overseas financing for parties based in the Cayman Islands
• Joint venture between a Chinese manufacturer and a US distributor
• Representation of a Scottish pharmaceuticals company in US based clinical study agreements

The Chairman of the International Group is John Talvacchia, who is a member of the firm’s Business Division and Co-chair of its Corporate Group. Our primary Lex Mundi contacts are Mark A. Willard, head of the Technology Litigation Group and co-head of the Securities Litigation Group of the firm, and Stephen M. Foxman, a member of the firm’s Business Division. Membership in the State Capital Group is chaired by LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Senior Counsel in the firm’s Harrisburg office, who was Pennsylvania’s first elected Attorney General.