All-Alumni Reunion > Programs >
Global Economies, Global Challenges
Saturday, September 30
9:30 - 10:45 am
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| Piracy, uneven employment and manufacturing standards, and outsourcing are but a few of the challenges businesses face in our global economy. Learn about successes and strategies to help navigate in international waters. Professor Richard Buxbaum '53, Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law, will lead this discussion with Richard Frasch '77, vice president of GlobiTech Holding Company; Ken King '87, partner at Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom; and John Schulman '72 executive vice president and general counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. |
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Richard Buxbaum '53 practiced law in Rochester, New York, and with the U.S. Army before joining the Boalt faculty in 1961. He is the Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law. He publishes in the fields of corporation law and comparative and international economic law, and since 1987 has been editor in chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law. Richard founded and was the first chair of UC Berkeley's Center for German and European Studies and Center for Western European Studies. From 1993 to 1999, he was dean of international and area studies at Berkeley.
Richard was one of the five defense counsel in the criminal proceedings against the 773 members of the Free Speech Movement from 1964 to 1967; represented various campus organizations and individuals in cases arising out of Vietnam War protests; and was defense counsel in a large number of criminal proceedings that accompanied the Third World Strike of 1969-70, which was a factor in the development of affirmative action programs for student admissions on the campus. He was the first director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at Berkeley, serving from 1969 to 1974.
Richard has served on various state and national committees engaged in the drafting and review of corporate and securities legislation. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Cologne, Frankfurt, Münster and Sydney. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Cologne, Osnabrück and Eötvös Lorand Budapest, and received the 1992-93 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Award for Humanities and Arts. Richard is a member of the American Law Institute and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
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Richard Frasch '77 is vice president-business development and legal affairs at GlobiTech Holding Company, a silicon wafering company. He is in charge of all legal and business development matters for the establishment and development of operations in China, the United States and Europe. From 1998 to November 2005, he was the managing director of the KLM Capital Group, an international venture capital management firm based in San Jose, California. Its operations focused on synergistic high-technology direct investments in the United States and Asia.
Richard has been a featured speaker and/or panelist on numerous legal/investing topics over the last two decades including, most recently delivering talks titled, "Silicon Valley Looks West.... to Asia: Venture Capital Investments in China" for the Toronto Venture Capital Group) and "Venture Capital Investing in Asia" for the Venture Capital Committee of the ABA Section on Business Law.
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Ken King '87 is the partner in charge of Skadden Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom's offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco, and serves on the firm's Policy Committee.
In the United States, his practice concentration is mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as equity financing, licensing and strategic partnering transactions in the information technology and biotechnology industries. He represented Yahoo! in its strategic partnership with Alibaba.com. The deal, valued at over $4 billion, created one of the largest Internet companies in China.
Internationally, Ken has represented numerous U.S. companies in connection with their acquisitions and strategic transactions in Asia and Europe, as well as Japanese and European corporations in connection with their transactions in the U.S. Together with the firm's Tokyo office, he has advised on many of the hostile M&A transactions that have recently taken place in Japan. He was resident in Skadden, Arps' Tokyo office from 1990 to 1991, worked for several years in the Tokyo headquarters of one of Japan's largest integrated trading companies prior to law school and speaks Japanese.
Ken was named by California Lawyer as one of the top corporate and M&A lawyers in the state (in a group of only nine attorneys listed) and by San Francisco Magazine as one of the top “super lawyers” in northern California. He clerked for the Honorable Kenneth W. Starr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit following law school. At Boalt, he was editor in chief of the California Law Review and Order of the Coif.
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| John Schulman '72 is executive vice president and general counsel of Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. He oversees a legal department of 125 lawyers involved in the financing, production and distribution of audiovisual entertainment initially released in theater, television, video or over the Internet in the United States and throughout the world. John joined Warner Bros. in 1984 as vice president and general counsel. Five years later, he became senior vice president, general counsel before attaining his current position in 1991.
Prior to joining Warner Bros., John was a founding partner at Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman & Schulman and earlier, a partner at Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin.
He has served as a lecturer at the UCLA School of Law and as a guest lecturer at Boalt Hall. John earned his A.B. degree from Yale University in 1968 and graduated from Boalt Hall in 1972.
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