Practice Areas | - Brazil
- Corporate Governance
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 214-651-5913
Fax: 214-200-0935
http://www.haynesboone.com/webb_spradley/
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| University | Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1974; Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business, M.B.A., Executive, 1993 |
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| Law School | University of Texas, J.D., 1978 |
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| Admitted | 1978, Texas |
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| Languages | Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, and Romanian |
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| Born | Dallas, Texas |
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| ISLN | 903502830 |
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| Transactions | Represented a Dallas-based industrial packaging firm and its Swedish parent company in the stock acquisition of a Mexican firm; involvement included extensive due diligence, partition of assets, transfer of employees, labor unions, and public filings.; Assisted a privately held Texas company in perfecting liens on stock and assets in Mexico to secure loans; upon default, guided it in exercising on the collateral and acquiring ownership of the Mexican entity involved without recourse to litigation.; Structured a contract manufacturing (maquila) regime for a Dallas-based manufacturing company with numerous plants in Mexico to take advantage of U.S. and Mexican tax incentives.; Assisted U.S. parties in amicable dissolution and liquidation of manufacturing joint ventures in Brazil and Argentina, pressing judicial challenge to government decrees ordering mandatory currency conversions and repatriation of funds.; Represented company conducting tender offers and debt-to-equity conversions in Romania, purchase of a Slovakian company, dissolution of Brazilian and U.K. subsidiaries, and a minority shareholder buy-out in the Czech Republic.; Advised company in the sale of aluminum coal cars and related technology transfer to Chinese state railcar manufacturer, coordinating the preparation of purchase contract, technology transfer agreement and letters of credit.; Represented U.S. start-up in negotiating share subscription agreements and related investment documents with institutional investors, including the Mexican federal development bank and International Finance Corporation.; Advised U.S. parent company and Mexican, Czech and Slovak subsidiaries in implementing and monitoring compliance with Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and U.S. export controls.; Represented a U.S. manufacturer of couplers for railway wagons in the licensing and technology transfer of process know-how to five manufacturers in India. |
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