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Chair of our International Practice Group, Mark advises businesses in the fields of international transactions and structures.These transactions include licenses, sales, leases, franchises and acquisitions.His experience in structural options comprises branch offices, subsidiaries, joint ventures, agency relationships and distributorships.His background includes more than 15 years of in-house legal work at Medtronic, Inc. and supercomputer maker Cray Research, Inc., including the post of international counsel for both companies. He regularly consulted with the law firm of Amita & Hirokawa and a major Japanese trading company during his work at Kyoto University.Mark has negotiated contracts in Japan, Korea, China, Western Europe, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and the Pacific Rim, and has engaged in substantial studies in German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese.Mark assists United States companies in advancing their positions abroad and represents Asian, Canadian and European companies in the United States and elsewhere | 