Han, Susan S.

Brad represents and advises private and public businesses and individuals worldwide. In addition to being an attorney, he has been a Vice-President of Corporate Development, President, CEO and Director for a variety of global companies.

Mergers, Acquisitions Asset Transactions: Brad's 25 years of business transaction experience encompasses a wide variety of industries, including the acquisition and start-up of a Major League Baseball team and acquisitions and sales of public and private businesses ranging from esoteric high-tech to base metals mining.

Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance: Brads clients have included global venture capital and investment firms and a wide variety of entrepreneurial ventures. He assists his institutional clients in structuring and protecting their investments, and his business clients in starting-up their ventures, preparing them for initial and later-round financing, and going public. His practice includes capital formation, private and public equity, securities, and debt and derivative instruments, and he has represented companies in private placements and public offerings of securities in the United States, on the Toronto and Vancouver Stock Exchanges, the London Stock Exchange, and with listings on foreign stock exchanges. Brad also helps his clients comply with the latest demands on corporate governance and self-reporting, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and evolving SEC reporting requirements.

Strategic Transactions: Brad also assists his clients in developing strategic growth through drafting and implementation of indirect sales channel programs, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and licensing, co-branding, co-marketing and other strategic transactions, while both protecting and maximizing the value of their intellectual property.

Technology, Intellectual Property Telecommunications: Brad has extensive expertise representing clients in the streaming media, cyber-center, managed services, collaboration software and telecommunications businesses, and has pursued graduate studies in telecommunications at the University of Denver. His technology practice includes agreements for telecommunications services, Internet content creation, hosting and access, technology and software licensing, e-commerce, broadband and streaming media, cyber-center operations, managed services, ASP and xSP businesses, on-line collaboration, interactive media and B2B services. He assists his clients in identification, realization and protection of their intellectual property, and copyright and trademark matters. He has lectured on the Law of Computer Networks, Digital Rights Management and Terms Conditions In Technology Agreements. In addition to IP and communications technologies, Brad has also represented clients in the nuclear fuel, nano-technology, chemicals, and chip manufacturing industries, and spent several years as a member of a trade team charged with identifying and commercializing technologies developed by the military industrial complex of the former Soviet Union.

International Transactions Operations: Brad has lived and worked in Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Spain. He has had extended long-term professional postings in Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. He has also represented clients in business transactions with governmental and business entities in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Wales and throughout the Americas, and has represented British, Canadian, German, Russian, Spanish and South Korean clients in the United States. He helps his clients adapt to foreign legal systems and cultures when establishing international operations and joint ventures, and in complying with laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the UN Convention on the International Sales of Goods. He also assists foreign clients doing business in the United States.

Mining Natural Resources: Brad has extensive experience representing exploration, mining and oil gas companies, including the conception and implementation of a hostile take-over of a producing gold mining company in Nevada, where, while acting as President and CEO, he re-organized operations, worked out the company debt obligations, and marketed, negotiated and sold the company for a profit. He has negotiated, drafted and implemented hundreds of agreements for joint ventures, farm-ins, options, exploration, mine development, construction and operations, royalties, production off-take, project financing, derivative instruments, price hedging and other commodity price protection agreements.

Media, Sports, Arts Entertainment: Brad advises music and recording artists on production, recording, publishing, licensing, management, agency, merchandising, distribution and sponsorship agreements; band partnership agreements; concert promotion venue agreements; trademark copyright registration; and mechanical, synchronization, transcription, public performance and print license agreements. He advises companies and entertainment professionals on broadcast and distribution agreements, photography, film and television production agreements, film financing agreements, actor's agreements, model releases, photographer agreements, and free-lance work-for-hire agreements.