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David A. Steiger's latest book

Transactions Without Borders

Whether you are an old hand at cross-border transactions or have spent the last several hours staring at a map of the world asking how you ever got talked into managing one, welcome. You have discovered a very valuable resource.

Transactions Without Borders is a book designed for businesspeople as much as lawyers and legal scholars. While MBA programs rarely if ever teach business students how to manage attorneys in order to get the maximum benefit out of the attorney-client relationship, the current economic climate calls for this skill in spades. This book will help businesspeople involved in international operations understand the role their attorneys and other supporting personnel play throughout the process of a transaction in a way that will assist them in getting the most from their legal spend.

Of course, attorneys themselves (and really anyone involved in any aspect of cross-border deal making) will also learn a lot from this text. This is true whether we are talking about a solo practitioner with little previous international experience or someone who already jets around the globe on behalf of multiple multinational clients. From hundreds of hours of one-on one interviews with the author, this text incorporates the experience and practical observations of dozens of transactional counsel, consultants, and executive experts on cross-border deals from around the world. It is fair to say that virtually any reader will pick up useful insights into a host of topics involved in overseas operations.

Organized in a logical, easy-to-follow format, the book explores the appropriate roles of outside counsel and other professionals, examines the critical due diligence process, identifies relevant issues in mission critical areas such as compliance, labor law, employee mobility and intellectual property, and then focuses on deal making and implementation. Finally, Epilogue takes the reader on a look ahead to consider what current trends can tell us about where the global economy is heading in the years to come and suggests some dangers and opportunities to international operations that flow from these trends.