Contributors
USLawforNordics are proud – and extremely fortunate! – to have a vast network of US lawyers, bankers, VC:s and other superprofessionals who are willing to share with us their experience and expertise.
Adrian Millen
Adrian Millén is Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer at Bank of the West. He’s responsible for enhancing sales with non-US and US based international clients. His clients include international entrepreneurs and families, high net-worth individuals and multi-national businesses. Originally from Stockholm with an American mother, he’s been working and living in San Francisco the past 3 years. If you have questions or would like further information on Banking in the U.S please feel free to contact Adrian: +1 415 694 1843, adrian.millen@bankofthewest.com https://www.bankofthewest.com/personal-banking/international-clients.html
Andrew Sparks
Andrew Sparks is a senior associate in the SOMA office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he practices corporate and securities law. Andrew primarily focuses on the representation of emerging companies and venture capital firms, including in the areas of corporate formations, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, corporate governance, and public offerings.
Ane Kallmyr Lerheim
Ane is a Norwegian qualified lawyer, currently working as a European Consultant with Fieldfisher (Silicon Valley) LLP in Palo Alto. Before moving to the Bay Area, Ane worked for Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS (Norway) advising European and international clients in employment law and privacy issues. Since moving to the Bay Area, she focuses on privacy and tech and draws on her international experience to advise multinationals on privacy and employment compliance strategies."
Benjamin A. Kimes
Ben counsels his clients through all stages of intellectual property development, including strategy, patent preparation, patent prosecution, and patentability. He also frequently advises parties seeking and providing open source licensing. Ben’s patent work covers a range of technology issues. He writes and prosecutes patent applications in computer software fields such as cryptography, cloud computing, the internet of things (IoT), machine learning, and image processing.
Chiara Portner
Chiara advises clients on commercial transactions, open source and dual license models, technology, content and music licensing, and commercial and IP aspects of financing and acquisition transactions. Chiara’s practice also includes advising clients on privacy and data protection compliance matters.
Greg Wrenn
Greg Wrenn is a veteran Silicon Valley general counsel. He has over 25 years of legal experience, including 20 years of in-house practice, ten of which was spent serving as General Counsel and Secretary for publicly traded companies in the software and Internet services areas. His philosophy of providing legal services is that of the Sherpa: bringing specialized knowledge and skill as a guide in order to help the team achieve their mission. Greg has empathy, creativity, practicality, expertise, experience, responsiveness, efficiency, and a sincere desire to help business executives reach their goals.
Jenny Kassan
Jenny has over two decades of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises. She has helped her clients raise millions of dollars from values-aligned investors and raised over $1 million for her own businesses. Jenny is certified as a coach by the International Association of Women in Coaching. Jenny earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.
John R. Campos
John has 15+ years of focusing on insurance for emerging growth companies of varying industries, including a great many that begin and maintain foreign operations.
Lars Johansson
Lars Johansson is a corporate partner in the firm’s Palo Alto and San Francisco offices. He represents U.S.-based and international public and private companies, as well as investors, in connection with corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, joint ventures, and international business transactions.
Linus Ostberg
Linus Ostberg is a Senior Manager with Moore Stephens’ Private Client Services team and leads Moore Stephens US Tax Services Limited in London. Ostberg is a triple-qualified US, UK and Swedish tax specialist, who has more than 10 years of experience advising multinationals on tax strategy for their worldwide expatriate workforces, as well as advising high net worth individuals on complex US tax planning. If you have questions or would like further information on US tax issues for non-Americans moving to the US please feel free to contact Linus Ostberg at Moore Stephens US Tax Services Limited. Linus is based in London and his details are: Linus Ostberg International Tax Senior Manager +44 (0)20 7651 1624 Ostberg@msustax.com
Lorraine D'Alessio
D’Alessio Law Group was founded by US attorney Lorraine P. D’Alessio. Mrs. D’Alessio is the firm’s founding partner and was recently named a 2016 Century City Bar Association Lawyer of the Year and Leader of Law for International Law by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Heralded by the Bay Street Bull as “One of the 9 Fearless Women in Canada Changing the Status Quo,” a Toronto native and former Ford model, Mrs. D’Alessio spearhead the firm’s business transactional law and business and employment-related immigration initiatives.
Marek Adamo
Marek Adamo has more than 11 years experience as a corporate lawyer representing emerging companies, investors and public and private corporations. His areas of expertise include entity formation, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial transactions
Olga Quinones
Olga has effectively assisted our Scandinavian clients with securing business visas and Green Cards for more than ten years. Working hand in hand with the firm’s attorneys, she has demonstrated a remarkable record of success in procuring B-1, L1-A, H1-B, E-1, and E-2 visas and Green Cards.
Paradigm Team
Paradigm is a global technology lawfirm, that focuses on its clients’ needs. Paradigm Counsel is uniquely positioned to provide pragmatic, cost effective legal solutions. They have successfully achieved their clients’ goals in diverse matters both nationally and throughout the world.
Roger Royse
Roger Royse, the founder of the Royse Law Firm, works with companies ranging from newly formed tech startups to publicly traded multinationals in a variety of industries. Roger regularly advises on complex tax structuring, high stakes business negotiations and large international financial transactions. https://rroyselaw.com
Spencer Raff
Spencer Raff has over 30 years legal experience spanning both in-house and private practice in the United States and Europe. After completing law school, Spencer interned in Scotland and worked for American and British firms in London. After returning to the United States he litigated product liability, insurance defense and commercial transaction cases. spencer@pragmaticalaw.com, tfn: 001.415.585.6239
Sylvia Dion
Sylvia F. Dion, CPA is the Founder & Managing Member of PrietoDion Consulting Partners LLC, a tax consulting firm specializing in providing State & Local Tax (SALT) consulting and compliance services to companies throughout the United States and in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Asia. Sylvia has 25 plus years of professional tax experience include holding SALT Senior Management and Leadership positions with Ernst & Young (EY) and Grant Thornton, including serving as the New England Area Director of Employment Tax Services for EY. In addition to her public accounting experience, Sylvia has also worked in corporate tax departments of several high-tech, software and manufacturing companies. Currently, Sylvia specializes in providing tax consulting and compliance services to U.S. businesses as well as to businesses in many parts of the world.
Therese Dalebrant
Supporting Swedish companies in their international expansion to the U.S. at Business Sweden. Managing the Try Swedish program in the U.S., which is the largest initiative yet by the Swedish government to promote Swedish food export. Actively working to decrease regulatory barriers between the U.S. and Sweden.