Rich Kaye works diligently to help international clients pursuing business in the U.S. and domestic companies looking to grow internationally, make strategic acquisitions and successfully structure their joint ventures and cross-border transactions. He is detail-oriented and is often called on to serve as outside general counsel for his diverse client base.
OVERVIEW
Richard A. Kaye
Partner
OVERVIEW
Richard A. Kaye
Partner
Rich Kaye works diligently to help international clients pursuing business in the U.S. and domestic companies looking to grow internationally, make strategic acquisitions and successfully structure their joint ventures and cross-border transactions. He is detail-oriented and is often called on to serve as outside general counsel for his diverse client base.
- OVERVIEW
- EXPERIENCE
- EXPERIENCE
- INSIGHTS & EVENTS
OVERVIEW
Rich focuses on domestic and cross-border transactions, entity structuring, investments, commercial contracts, real estate, manufacturing, franchising, and agency and distribution agreements. Rich began his professional career abroad in the Ivory Coast and then practiced in Paris, France. Since 1989, he has been helping U.S. companies and Chinese companies form joint ventures with entities all over the world, and has done the same for businesses in Africa and France. He enjoys making connections and finding the most efficient, cost-effective and creative way to get the deal done.
He knows that his clients don’t want a lawyer who tells them no, they want a lawyer that tells them how. Astute and keenly attuned to the energy in the room, Rich can ably steer the deal negotiation to effectuate his client’s goals.
Rich handles complex acquisitions, dispositions, investments, real estate transactions, franchise development and regulation, and construction matters for businesses in the U.S. and abroad. Once an international company establishes U.S. operations, the resulting entity often calls upon him to be its outside general counsel, where he manages a wide variety of their legal needs.
He also regularly advises on certifications, joint ventures and participation arrangements relating to certified entities (Mentor-Protégé), including disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs), women-owned small businesses (WOSBs) and disabled veteran business enterprises (DVBEs).
Rich is a registered lobbyist and advocates for his clients at the state and federal levels.
Professional and Community Involvement
Advisory board member, Metro Atlanta Chamber
Member, Georgia Economic Developers Association
Former board member, French American Chamber of Commerce
Former board member, Construction Financial Management Association
Former chair, American Bar Association International Commercial Transactions, Franchising and Distribution Committee
Former chair, Atlanta Bar Association International Section
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
Representative European Experience
- Assisted Chinese client with purchase of the largest private French press agency out of bankruptcy and continued legal coordination and support with shareholder, labor, and business issues, post-acquisition
- Assisted U.S. company in drafting franchise agreements in EU and Russia Federation, coordinate trademark and franchise filings in European jurisdictions requiring such filings, and assist with negotiation of EU centric agreements
- Assisted U.S. company in licensing manufacturing know-how in various EU countries
- Coordinated litigation and arbitration proceedings in various EU countries, sourcing and managing local counsel, establishing litigation budgets and liaising with U.S. client’s in-house team
- Assisted U.S. University navigate French national and provincial tax issues arising out of a gift of a French rural campus to U.S. University from a Panamanian owner
- Engaged and managed local counsel to review multi-country real estate leases for U.S. company’s European installations
- Engaged on behalf of U.S. shareholder European counsel and manage French shareholder litigation
- Engaged Belgian counsel and manage legal aspects of acquisition of Belgian company by U.S. company
- Worked with legal counsel in Europe to develop EU country specific distribution contracts for U.S. company
- Assisted publically traded U.S. company on FCPA audit in the Russia Federation
- Assisted numerous U.S. clients with GDPR compliance, evaluating clients’ GDPR policies and establishing best practices for international data collection and privacy
- Assisted multinational companies entering the U.S. market update their commercial documents (invoices, terms and conditions, distributorship agreements etc.) for compliance with U.S. laws and commercial customs
- Assisted multinational companies with U.S. acquisitions and joint ventures
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