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| | Location: Suite 2500, 203 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60601-1262, (Cook Co.) | | |
(Main Office)
| Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. practices in the following areas of law:
International Business, Corporations, Corporate Financing and Reorganizations, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Business Law, Business Start-ups, Business Succession, Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, Eminent Domain Litigation, Environmental Law, Banking, Finance and Lending, Estate Planning, Charitable Trusts and Foundations, Antitrust and Trade Regulations, Unfair Competition, Commercial Transactions, Employment and Labor Relations, Employment Litigation, Executive and Severance Packages, Employment Discrimination, Immigration, Business Immigration, Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Infringement, Intellectual Property Litigation, Design Patents, Copyrights, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Prosecution, Copyright Protection, Trademark Prosecution, Trademark Protection, Trademark Registration, Multistate and Local Taxation, Probate, Insurance Defense, Product and Professional Liability, Arbitration, International Litigation, Civil Litigation, Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Trials in all Courts, Creditor Bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Reorganization, Cargo Claims, Freight Claims, Creditors Rights, Torts, Distribution Law, Distribution Termination, Risk Management, Uniform Commercial Codes, Mediation, and General Civil Practice. | | Year Established: 1961 | Firm Profile:
Full-service law firm advising clients in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, with special emphasis on international companies operating and investing in the U.S. | | Firm Size: 44 | Languages:
Japanese, Spanish, German, Russian, Armenian, Italian. |
Other Office Locations of Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd.
Torrance, California, U.S.A.
| | PRINCIPALS | | Anthony J. Bruozas (Principal) admitted to bar, 1990, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth and Seventh Circuits; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1987); Loyola University (J.D., 1990). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Trade Secret Litigation; Distribution Law; Creditors Rights; Products Liability; Product Recalls. Email: Anthony J. Bruozas | | James M. Coonan (Principal) admitted to bar, 1973, Wisconsin; 1976, Illinois. Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison (J.D., 1972); University of Minnesota (M.B.A., 1983). Practice Areas: Business Law; Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Securities. Email: James M. Coonan | | Helmut Eifert (1929-1995). | | Jerrold E. Fink (Principal) admitted to bar, 1971, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 1976, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., magna cum laude, 1968); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1971). Practice Areas: Trade Regulation; Distribution; Antitrust; Litigation; Intellectual Property. Email: Jerrold E. Fink | | Bryan Y. Funai (Principal) admitted to bar, 1981, Illinois; 1987, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1998, Ohio. Education: Northern Illinois University (B.S., 1978); Thomas M. Cooley Law School (J.D., 1981). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Business Immigration; Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts. Email: Bryan Y. Funai | | Masaru Funai (Principal) admitted to bar, 1957, Illinois. Education: University of Hawaii (B.A., 1952); Northwestern University (J.D., 1957). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Business Development; Business Formation; Business Acquisitions and Sales; Joint Ventures. Email: Masaru Funai | | Kathleen M. Gaber (Principal) admitted to bar, 1985, Georgia; 1986, Illinois; 1989, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (B.B.A., 1981; B.A., 1982); Emory University (J.D., 1985). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Croatian. Practice Areas: Business Immigration. Email: Kathleen M. Gaber | | Keith Walter Groebe (Principal) admitted to bar, 1979, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit and U.S. Tax Court. Education: University of Illinois (B.A., 1975; M.A., 1976); DePaul University (J.D., 1979). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Real Estate Development; Industrial Real Estate; Commercial Real Estate; Real Estate Finance; Business Law; Construction Law; Contracts. Email: Keith Walter Groebe | | Timothy J. Hammersmith (Principal) admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois; 1994, Florida. Education: University of South Florida (B.S., 1987); The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1993). Practice Areas: Real Estate Taxation; Real Estate Transactions; Real Estate Title Insurance. Email: Timothy J. Hammersmith | | Colin Hara (Principal) admitted to bar, 1978, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit; 1998, Ohio. Education: Loyola University (A.B., 1973); DePaul University (J.D., 1978). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Commercial Law; Employment Law; Contracts; Business Immigration. Email: Colin Hara | | Eldon H. Kakuda (Principal) admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania; 1987, Illinois; 1998, Ohio. Education: University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Georgetown University, (B.S.F.S., 1982); Georgetown University (J.D., 1986). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Business Immigration; Contracts; Corporate Law; Employment Law. Email: Eldon H. Kakuda | | Alan M. Kaplan (Principal) admitted to bar, 1980, Illinois; 1999, Ohio and Kentucky. Education: Northwestern University (B.S.E., 1973; M.A., 1975); DePaul University (J.D., 1980). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Management Labor Law; Employment Discrimination; Collective Bargaining. Email: Alan M. Kaplan | | Steven L. Katz (Principal) admitted to bar, 1992, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1995, U.S. District Court, District of Arizona; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., 1989); Northern Illinois University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1992). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Antitrust Law; Commercial Law; Distribution; Distribution and Sales; Unfair Trade. Email: Steven L. Katz | | George H. Kobayashi (Principal) admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois. Education: Creighton University (B.S.B.A., 1995); The John Marshall Law School (J.D., 2000). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property; Internet Law; Corporate Law; Agency and Distribution; Commercial Law. Email: George H. Kobayashi | | Dayne Kono (Managing Partner) admitted to bar, 1982, Illinois; 1983, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1998, Kentucky and Ohio. Education: University of Michigan (A.B., 1978); Fordham University (J.D., 1982). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Commercial Law; Labor and Employment; Business Immigration; Intellectual Property. Email: Dayne Kono | | Reinhold F. Krammer (Principal) admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1988); DePaul University (J.D., 1993). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Creditor Rights; Commercial Law; Collections; Bankruptcy; Distribution and Sales. Email: Reinhold F. Krammer | | Thomas Masuda (1905-1986). | | Thomas P. McMenamin (Principal) admitted to bar, 1980, District of Columbia; 1990, Illinois. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., high honors, 1975); Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., 1980). Languages: French. Practice Areas: Finance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Divestitures. Email: Thomas P. McMenamin | | Gerald L. Morel (Principal) admitted to bar, 1972, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois including Trial Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Northern Illinois University (B.S., 1969); Loyola University of Chicago (J.D., 1972). Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Law; Agency and Distributorships; Contracts. Email: Gerald L. Morel | | Joseph S. Parisi (Principal) admitted to bar, 1975, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1972); Loyola University of Chicago (J.D., 1975). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Practice Areas: Commercial Business Counseling; Distribution Law; Joint Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions. Email: Joseph S. Parisi | | Stephen M. Proctor (Principal) admitted to bar, 1982, Illinois; 1983, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1998, Ohio; 1999, Kentucky. Education: Indiana University (B.A., with high distinction, 1977; J.D., cum laude, 1982). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Agency and Distributorships; Labor and Employment; Commercial Law. Email: Stephen M. Proctor | | Gary D. Santella (Principal) admitted to bar, 1979, Illinois; 1980, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: Loyola University of Chicago (B.A., 1976; J.D., 1979). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Agency and Distributorships; Contracts. Email: Gary D. Santella | | Nancy E. Sasamoto (Principal) admitted to bar, 1980, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Illinois (B.S., 1977); Washington University (J.D., 1980). Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Litigation; Trademarks; Commercial Law; Distribution. Email: Nancy E. Sasamoto | | Mary W. Shellenberg (Principal) admitted to bar, 1974, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: Mundelein College (B.A., 1971); Loyola University of Chicago (J.D., 1974). Practice Areas: Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Business Entity Planning; Entity Formation; Employee Benefits. Email: Mary W. Shellenberg | | John B. Stanis (Principal) admitted to bar, 1988, Illinois. Education: Illinois State University (B.S., 1985); University of Illinois (J.D., 1988). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Litigation; Labor and Employment; Commercial Law; Distribution and Sales. Email: John B. Stanis | | Reynard L. Tanig (Principal) admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A., 1990); DePaul University College of Law (J.D., 1993). Practice Areas: Trusts and Estates; Probate; Estate and Gift Taxation; Business Law. Email: Reynard L. Tanig | | Edward J. Underhill (Principal) admitted to bar, 1984, Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois including Trial Bar, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Northern Illinois University (B.A., 1981; J.D., 1984). Practice Areas: Litigation; Arbitration; Commercial Law; Appellate Practice. Email: Edward J. Underhill | | Gary Vist (Principal) admitted to bar, 1999, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Education: Loyola University, Chicago (B.S., 1996); Northwestern University (J.D., 1999). Languages: Russian, Ukrainian. Practice Areas: Employment Litigation; Franchise Litigation; Bankruptcy; Debtor and Creditor Collections; Commercial Litigation. Email: Gary Vist | | Jennifer R.M.C. Watson (Principal) admitted to bar, 2001, Illinois. Education: North Central College (B.A., 1997); Northwestern University School of Law (J.D., 2001). Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Employee Benefits; Taxation. Email: Jennifer R.M.C. Watson | | Robert S. White (Principal) admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1990); Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent (J.D., 1993). (Also at Schaumburg Office). Practice Areas: Business Immigration. Email: Robert S. White | | ASSOCIATES | | David Alexander (Associate) admitted to bar, 2005, Illinois. Education: Eastern Illinois University (B.A., 2002); IIT Chicago Kent College of Law (J.D., 2005). | | Frank J. Del Barto (Associate) born Flushing, New York, January 16, 1965; admitted to bar, 2007, Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: The John Marshall Law School (J.D., LL.M., Employee Benefits, 2007); The Virginia Military Institute (B.A., 1987). Practice Areas: Employment and Labor; Business Law. Email: Frank J. Del Barto | | Erin M. Gaeke (Associate) admitted to bar, 2007, Illinois. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., 2004); Valparaiso University (J.D., 2007). Languages: French. Practice Areas: Litigation; Distribution and Sales. Email: Erin M. Gaeke | | Dooyong Kang (Associate) admitted to bar, 2003, Illinois; 2007, New Jersey; 2008, District of Columbia. Education: Columbia University (B.A., 1995; M.I.A., 1998; M.P.A., 2000); Loyola University School of Law (J.D., 2003). Languages: Japanese, Korean. Practice Areas: Business Law. | | Sayaka Kawakami (Associate) admitted to bar, 2006, Illinois. Education: University of Washington (B.A., 2002); The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law (J.D., 2006). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Distribution and Sales; Litigation; Intellectual Property. Email: Sayaka Kawakami | | Jason M. Metnick (Associate) admitted to bar, 2003, Illinois. Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (B.A., 2000); DePaul University College of Law (J.D., 2003). Languages: Spanish, French and German. Practice Areas: Agency and Distributorships; Commercial Law; Civil Litigation; Business Law. Email: Jason M. Metnick | | Shinya Yamamoto (Associate) admitted to bar, 1998, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Education: Michigan State University (B.A., Marketing, 1993); Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., 1997). Languages: Japanese. Practice Areas: Real Estate. Email: Shinya Yamamoto | | OF COUNSEL | | James C. Shanley, (P.C.) (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1974, Illinois, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Court of Federal Claims; 1990, California. Education: DePaul University (B.S.C., 1966; J.D., 1974). Practice Areas: Taxation Law; Corporate Law. Email: James C. Shanley, (P.C.) | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Schaumburg, Illinois Office: Suite 800, 1475 East Woodfield Road, 60173-5485. Telephone: 847-734-8811. Fax: 847-734-1089.
Torrance, California Office: Suite 420, 19191 South Vermont Avenue, 90502-1051. Telephone: 310-630-5900. Fax: 310-630-5909.
| | Maintains an office in more than one location. |
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