KENNETH S. AUGUST
Mr. August began his legal career with the firm of Lane & Edson, P.C., where he was part of the team that represented former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon's investment banking firm, WESRAY Corporation, in a variety of public and private financial transactions, management buy-outs and related corporate activity. Mr. August has also worked with the firm Dow, Lohnes & Albertson (where he represented a number of telecommunications companies, investment banking firms and commercial banks in a variety of corporate, commercial and financial transactions), and Graham & James (specializing in mergers & acquisitions, securities and joint venture transactions for the firm's international clientele). He left large law firm practice in October 1992 to focus on the representation of emerging and mid-sized corporate clients.
During his career, Mr. August has participated as legal counsel in transactions having an aggregate value of more than $2.5 Billion dollars. He has served as an Adjunct Professor both at Whittier Law School, teaching in the area of corporations and securities law, and for the University of California at Irvine Graduate School of Management on general legal issues impacting business professionals. He has lectured extensively in the areas of international business and financial transactional law, including for the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County in 2006, and was a contributing author on international mergers and acquisitions in the book The Art of M&A, published by Dow Jones-Irwin in 1987. Mr. August was a Founding Member of the College of Fellows of the Centre for International Legal Studies, headquartered in Kitzbuhl, Austria, and has served as a Director for the Singapore American Business Association (Southern California), the International Foundation for the Advancement and Support of Technology, as a Director and Past President of the Orange County International Business and Protocol Foundation, and as Chairman of the California International Business Advisory Board, Rancho Santiago Community College District. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish, and has a working knowledge of German, Italian, Portuguese and Russian.
Christopher T. Jain
Mr. Jain has over 10 years of experience in handling sophisticated business and financial transactions, with a sub-specialty in real estate transactions. A graduate of UC Berkley and the UCLA Law School, Mr. Jain�s expertise spans the gamut of transactional law, including public and private securities placements, SEC public company reporting and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has a sub-specialty in transactions involving real estate, including land purchase and sale transactions, leasing, real estate finance and the creation and maintenance of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Prior to joining August Law Group, P.C., Mr. Jain has worked as an associate attorney at several Southern California-based law firms, including Horwitz & Beam, Oswald & Yap and with the San Diego office of the prestigious firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. Mr. Jain�s legal accomplishments include serving as the Editor and Co-Founder of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs (UCLA); contributor to the Pacific Basin Law Journal (UCLA), and winner of the American Jurisprudence Award for Property.
Of Counsel
Martin King
Martin is a certified legal practitioner registered to practice in the People�s Republic of China, and has over eight years of focusing on Chinese corporations law, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border legal issues, real estate and dispute resolution processes in China. For the past five years, he has served as a named partner with the High Seas Law Firm, in Shenzhen, China. Prior to beginning his legal career, Martin worked for two years within the Shenzhen Industrial and Commercial Bureau, a governmental agency. Martin received his Bachelor of law from the Southwest University of Political Science & Law in 1993, and a Master�s Degree in Economics and Law from that same institution in 1996. His ability to assist companies working in and from China is of great value to our clientele.
WEI HAN JIAO
Wei Han Jiao earned his Masters Degree in Civil Law from Beijing University, and has over twelve years of experience practicing as registered lawyer in China, specializing in transactional and operational real estate law. With the ability to practice throughout China, Mr. Wei has recently been involved with several successful real estate projects located in the southern cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen. In his capacity serving clients, Mr. Wei has served as a legal consultant for an important Chinese real estate developer, offering consultation and services in all aspects of real property law there, including project planning, the purchase and sale of real estate, legal solutions for various kinds of project management, subcontracting issues, legal assistance advising on regulatory issues and working with local and national governmental authorities, and providing coordinating services for complex management structures.
Vietnam Joint Venture
On September 15, 2009, we received formal authorization from the Ministry of Justice of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to create August Bao Law, a joint venture between August Law Group, P.C. and Cong Ty Luat TNHH B&P, a Vietnamese law firm owned by attorney Bao Anh Thai. This licensed joint venture represents the very first of its kind between a Western law firm and a Vietnamese law firm, and maintains offices in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi. The firm will represent both Vietnamese and international clients engaging in corporate, financial, commercial, trade, banking, securities, mergers & acquisitions and other business transactions, focusing on a variety of sectors including real estate, energy, telecommunications, franchising and other important industries in Vietnam.
INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC NETWORK
Over the years, ALG has worked to build and nurture stron relationships with independent law firms located in other countires where our clients are or likely will be engaging in business activites. This "Network" has proven to be an impotant tool for us to provide reliable and up to date information to our clients in connection with their cross-border transactions, and has also provided themwith true insights into some of the cultural, political and business nuances of growing their enterprises internationally. Having strong, independent, local counsel equipped to handle any issue which may arise in the context of our clients' global operations and activities provides thema competitive advantage which is of incalculabale value.
August Law Group P.C. is proud of its record of working with distinguished colleagues around the world, and we are always seeking to enlarge the network for the benefit of our clients. Among those firms with which ALG has dveloped close working relationships are:
China
B&D Law Firm, Beijing. Mr. Andy Gu, Partner.
B & D ranks among the oldest and largest private and full-service partnership law firms in China. Formed on teh basis of a merger between two law firms established in the early 1990s, the Firm with 32 partners has more than 100 legal professionals.
Singapore
Stamford Law Corporations, Singapore. Mrs. Lee Suet Fem, Partner
Stamford Law focuses on all aspects of corporate practice, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets related work and corporate finance. Since its inception, it has earned several accolades and recognition in the legal industry for delivering high quality work, dispensing efficient and solutions-based advice as well as being consistently involved in cutting edge and complex transactions.
Isreal
Ben Simon, Pick, Tel Aviv. Yoav Ben-Simon, ADV.
This firm is a law firm committed to provide its clients with quality and timely professional legal services. It represents a wide variety of corporations and businesses, and has a vast experience in escorting and representing companies in their commercial activities
Australia
Hopgood Ganim, Brisbane. Brian Moller, Partner.
The past three decades have seen the firm moving through the ranks of �mid-tier�, to a firm who now competes with top-tier firms in national markets. The firm today stands at more than 150 staff including 17 partners, occupying close to two full floors of Waterfront Place, Eagle Street, Brisbane.
