Stairs, Dillenbeck, Finley, and Rendon

From their website:

FIRM OVERVIEW

"STAIRS DILLENBECK FINLEY & RENDÓN was founded in 1977 to specialize in providing legal representation to clients involved in international commerce. We have extensive practical experience with international business and finance, intellectual property, foreign law capabilities, and language skills. Our clients engage us to assist them in developing activities, operations or alliances in non-US markets, and to expand from abroad into the US market.  We have built our firm expressly to serve these needs.

"We have developed a network of law firms and contacts in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East upon which we call for immediate assistance in serving our clients' needs. We have already done our homework in the markets in which we operate, and therefore we know whom to approach for assistance on a particular matter in a local market.

"Our clients deal exclusively with senior lawyers possessing substantial legal and practical experience and seasoned judgment. This enables our clients to out-source to us their requirements for legal services with the absolute confidence that their matters will be dealt with promptly and properly.

"We often act as a surrogate for our clients' senior executives or General Counsel with respect to cross-border matters, thereby enabling them to leverage their time and resources with confidence. We negotiate - and close - complex transactions that meet our clients' requirements in a multinational setting.

"Our clients are engaged in investment and merchant banking, media and entertainment (including new media, music, sports, and filmed entertainment), project financing, venture capital, telecommunications and related technologies, Internet publishing, conferencing, licensing and transfer of technology, computer software development and licensing, vehicle rental and leasing, consumer products manufacture and distribution, trade promotion, and real estate development and finance.

"We also represent our clients in connection with the management of multi-party transnational litigation and arbitration, typically involving complex facts and the laws of several jurisdictions.

"Our lawyers have given advice to the following representative clients: in finance, ABG Sundal Collier, Evli Securities, Lehman Bros., Risk Waters Group, and The Edelman Companies; in general commerce, Ceteco N.V., Norsk Hydro, Opticore AB, Sixt A.G., Sterling -Winthrop, UST Inc., Kodak, and Voest-Alpine Intertrading; and in the sports-entertainment sector, the AEC companies (e.g., All Music Guide), the Columbia Pictures companies, International Management Group, the Universal companies, the Warner companies (e.g., WB, WEA.), Media Partners International, and numerous individual creative artists and entrepreneurial entities.

LATIN AMERICA

"We serve the Mexico and Central America markets through Robles y Tostado, our affiliate in Guadalajara, Mexico. Other Latin American markets are served through our network of firms in those areas.  This enables us to respond promptly to our clients' needs with civil law experts on the ground in Latin America who understand the special needs of U.S. and European clients.

"Our services include identifying and managing local counsel, deal structuring and monitoring, and interfacing with multinational clients. Recent examples of our work include providing ongoing turnkey legal services in Central America and the Caribbean to a Fortune 500 company, negotiating and structuring a joint venture in Peru for a Fortune 500 company, advising with respect to the disposition of the Latin American assets of a Fortune 500 company, advising a power developer with respect to investments in Argentina, and advising with respect to an ICC arbitration between a European consumer goods company and a Mexican industrial group.

"The areas of practice in these markets include corporate and commercial law, tax law, real estate law, intellectual property law, immigration law, labor law, commercial litigation, and arbitration.

Attorneys: Of Counsel:
 * Stanley T. Stairs
 * John J. Finley
 * Santiago J. Rendon
 * William E. Casselman
 * Frank J. Franzino, Jr.
 * Morton H. Fry
 * Antoine G. Ghafari
 * David J. Glinert
 * James M. Rae
 * Jorges Robles
 * Lewis W. Siegel