International Business Transactions
Miles & Stockbridge represents U.S. and multinational corporations in transactions abroad and maintains longstanding experience representing non-U.S. companies in direct investment and general business activities within the United States and North America.
For the past 40 years, our lawyers have regularly negotiated and structured transactions between U.S. and foreign corporations that involve business combinations (including mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures), direct investments and global trade issues.
For our international practice, we determined at the outset that we would use the same principles we had followed for decades with our other local, regional and national clients. We made further investments in learning the businesses at hand, knowing their culture and developing the trust that is critical to maintaining the necessary confidences to cross country and cultural lines.
As business has evolved from being international to global, Miles & Stockbridge’s international business practice has matched that evolution. We have helped both U.S. and foreign clients throughout the world seek financing and in-sourcing of goods and services from the most cost-efficient and reliable jurisdictions. Clients seek our assistance in not only U.S.-linked transactions, but also in acquisitions, financings and other projects where our knowledge of the client and its business and our relationships—and ability to deal with law firms in foreign jurisdictions—have enabled us to coordinate and conclude the transaction in the expedited time frames often required by our client's management.
Our lawyers frequently counsel multinational and U.S. clients on global export and sales activities. We have experience with U.S. export restrictions and trade agreements, as well as with the negotiation and preparation of sales distribution agreements and export sales contracts under the U.N. Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods. A key strength of our trade practice is our work with commercial finance clients on insured letters of credit that allow foreign countries and companies to acquire a variety of U.S. exports. Finally, we are familiar with all trade and transactional implications of U.S. laws regarding foreign corrupt practices, boycotts and antitrust issues.
