With an office in Brazil and fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, and Hindi, Sanjiv Kapur has worked for over three decades on groundbreaking cross-border M&A transactions in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Sanjiv uses his cross-cultural language skills, acumen related to foreign legal principles, and international commercial experience to develop flexible creative solutions for clients.
Sanjiv's diverse experience includes advising clients on acquiring a minority interest, with the benefit of stockholder agreement protections, in a publicly traded Brazilian agricultural products company; negotiating a strategic alliance across continents for the development and commercialization of pharmaceuticals; buying the talent, intellectual property rights, and assets of a start-up technology business active in more than 15 countries; and executing the purchase or sale of global businesses involving telecommunication licenses, mining concessions, products registrations, or other government licenses and permits. Additionally, he often deals with commercial agency and distribution agreements, licensing arrangements, governance and compliance issues, and employment and labor law issues.
Clients that Sanjiv has worked with include Astellas, Babcock & Wilcox, Bayer AG, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bunge, Calgon Carbon, Cleveland Cliffs, Cooper Tire, Enjoy S.A., Entravision, ETS, Goodyear, Harris Corporation, Infinite Computers, Marubeni, Nutrien, Parker Hannifin, RPM, Sherwin-Williams, Sumitomo Mitsui, SunGard, Toshiba, and UPL.
Sanjiv has served on the board of numerous organizations, including Cleveland Council on World Affairs, Global Cleveland, Notre Dame College, CIPUSA, Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital, Case Western Reserve University International Visiting Committee, Cuyahoga County Public Library, and the City Club of Cleveland. He recently taught a course on mergers & acquisition at the FGV University in São Paulo.
经验
- April 5, 2024
Requirements for Collateral Perfection and Enforcement in Foreign Jurisdictions: Brazil, India, Canada and the UK, International Commercial Subcommittee meeting at the American Bar Association Business Law Section Spring Meeting - October 23, 2023
Navigating Cross-border M&A in Brazil and Latin America, Harvard Law School - September 8, 2022
British American Business Network Transatlantic Conference 2022, Panel Speaker on Transatlantic corporate transactional issues and opportunities post-COVID, post-Brexit - July 16, 2022
South Asian Bar Association of North America, Panel Moderator on Navigating Through The Storm: Deal Risk Management in Cross-Border M&A - October 29, 2021
The Impact Project, Inc. Success Sessions - Comparing Careers: Public v. Private Sector, panelist - June 28-July 1, 2018
South Asian Bar Association of North America, Panel Moderator on Global M&A Transactions In An Era Of Enhanced Compliance Enforcement - February 20, 2018
Greater Cleveland International Law Group, Brazil - Recent Business and Legal Developments - November 6, 2017
Sugar and Ethanol Week Brazil - 2017, speaker, Agribusiness Financing - December 6, 2016
Diligence in Cross Border Transactions in Light of the FCPA, speaker, Brazil Chapter of the New York State Bar Association: - November 3, 2016
NAPABA 2016 Convention. Cross Border Transactions: A Practitioners Perspective of Melding Business and Legal Cultures - December 4, 2015
Developments in Tender Offers and Other Public M&A, panelist, Latin Lawyer 6th Annual M&A Conference - October 28, 2015
Participation in Panel entitled Os formatos de distratos adotados pelos Estado Unidos, Espanha e Portugal, presented by O Sindicato de Construção and Federação Internacional Imobiliária - October 15, 2015
How Anticorruption Efforts are Changing the M&A Landscape in Latin America, New York State Bar Association's Reforming, Regrouping, Recycling: Brazil's Recent Developments and Opportunities for Latin America Amidst Global Challenges program - September 15, 2015
International Business Law Career Day, Private International Law Panel, Case Western Reserve University School of Law - May 21, 2015
Cross Cultural Litigation and Investigation - Recognizing and Overcoming Legal and Cultural Hurdles, ABA 2015 Program - February 27, 2015
FCPA in Brazil and Foreign Examples, Portuguese Brazilian Chamber of Commerce - February 9, 2015
Legal and Economic Developments in Brazil, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association - September 23, 2013
Panel on International Law Careers in the Private Sector at Case Western Reserve University - June 22, 2013
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Renewed Focus on Anticorruption - March 5-7, 2013
Jones Day Sponsors and Participates in the 12th Annual MCCA CLE Expo - March 1, 2013
Como lidar com contratos com Distribuidores e Agentes Comerciais nos EUA, Consulate of Brazil - February 23, 2013
Business of Law: Working with International and Domestic Businesses - November 29, 2012
International Investigations in the Age of the Whistleblower - November 16, 2012
Dealmaking in Emerging Markets: Doing Business In and With BRIC Countries (NAPABA) - November 15-18, 2012
NAPABA Annual Convention - September 25, 2012
Pursuing an International Law Career in the Private Sector, Case Western Reserve School of Law - June 29, 2012
Breaking Ground for International M&A: Issues and Concerns in Cross Border Transactions - June 28-30, 2012
North American South Asian Bar Association Convention - April 17-21, 2012
Jones Day Sponsors the ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting in New York - April 20, 2012
Market Access for Foreign Lawyers: Distilling Positions in Search of the Truth - March 21, 2012
South America: Practical Consideration for Lawyers - March 2012
Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) CLE Expo - March 8, 2012
Doing Business in Brazil - November 17, 2011
NASABA: Is YourCase Sustainable in the Global Economy? Language, Service of Process, Discovery, Enforcement and Other Issues to Consider When Foreign Parties are Involved - June 25, 2011
Legal Considerations in Investing and Doing Business in Brazil and Latin America - June 2011
Jones Day sponsors North American South Asian Bar Association’s 8th Annual Convention in Los Angeles - March 2, 2011
Brazil: Opportunities and Challenges - The Legal Curves of Doing Business in Brazil - January 20, 2011
How to Leverage Local Resources to do Business in Latin America - November 20, 2010
How Public Companies and their Board of Directors should prepare for New Challenges in Corporate Governance - October 12, 2010
How Local Companies Compete in a Global Economy, Baldwin Wallce College Center for Innovation and Growth - June 26, 2010
Lessons Learned from Joint Ventures, panelist - February 20, 2010
The Economy and Its Impact on the Legal Landscape, panelist, Case Western Reserve Law School - June 27, 2009
Where will we make rain in the future? At Pebble Beach or in Tiger Woods Golf? Trends in legal business development in the real and virtual worlds, panelist - May 12, 2009
Penetrating Foreign Markets Through Export Sales and Legal Issues in Establishing Foreign Business Operations, International Law Section, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and International Trade Assistance Center - February 28, 2009
International Trade Panel on Asia's Role at the Table, Harvard Law School - June 27, 2008
Foreign Investments, Joint Ventures and Fiduciary Duties, panelist - November 12-16, 2007
Legal issues related to joint ventures at Joint Ventures Directors Institute, The Conference Board - September 21, 2004
International Practice of Law at a Large Law Firm, Case Western Reserve University School of Law - June 18, 2004
National South Asian Bar Association - National Conference - October 28, 1999
Counseling Against Corruption--Managing the Risks, Developing Compliance Programs and Understanding the Consequences, Foreign Corrupt Practices Seminar of the Cleveland Bar Association - June 11, 1998
Selling to the New Europe -- Avoiding Legal Pitfalls - April 29, 1992
Investing in Mexico, Association for Corporate Growth Annual Workshop
- Lawyer in the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Juristenprogramm (Germany, 1988-1989); Pontificiada Universidad Catolica de Ecuador (Fulbright Scholar in Ecuadorian Labor Law, 1985-1986); Harvard University (J.D. magna cum laude 1985; A.B. in Economics magna cum laude 1982; Phi Beta Kappa); Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia (Rotary Foundation Scholar, 1981-1982)
- New York and Ohio
- Law Clerk to Judge David A. Nelson, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (1987 term)
- French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish
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