Last Revised: September 30, 1996

CHRISTOPHER P. WELLS

Christopher P. Wells is the Administrative Partner of the Tokyo Office of White & Case-Tokyo. He has worked as a lawyer for 12 of the 16 years he has lived in Japan. His practice is focused on general corporate, banking, intellectual property, securities, tax and financial regulatory matters. For the past three years, he has served as an adjunct Professor of Law on the Faculty of Law of Temply University in Japan teaching a course in cross-cultural business negotiations.

Mr. Wells specializes in financing and banking transactions, including cross-border equipment leasing, project finance, and sovereign credit financings. He has for almost a decade represented various United States, French, German and English banks providing credit in connection with Japanese leverage lease transactions. Mr. Wells also has represented lessors and lessees in certain transactions.

Mr. Wells' corporate experience includes representations in connection with the formation and subsequent operation of several of the largest multi-jurisdictional joint ventures in Japan. He also has assisted numerous United States, French, and other foreign international corporate groups in the establishment of business presences in Japan.

In the intellectual property area, Mr. Wells represents the Business Software Alliance (an organization composed of the major United States software publishers) and has principal responsibility for the coordination of their sofware piracy enforcement program in Japan. Mr. Wells also has assisted various United States computer hardware manufacturers in Japan in connection with various licensing and dispute resolution matters.

Mr. Wells has experience in handling Japanese transfer pricing tax matters, provides tax advice with respect to corporate reorganizations of Japan based operations, and tax opinions and advice with respect to the tax treatment of new financial products.

BARS AND COURTS :

California State Bar, admitted 1979
Federation of Japanese Bar Associations, admitted as Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi 1987
Second Tokyo Bar Association, admitted as Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi 1987
United States Federal Court for the Northern District of California
United States Federal Court for the Central District of California

EDUCATION:

B.A., University of Rochester, 1975
J.D., , UCLA School of Law, University of California at Los Angeles, 1979
M.B.A, Anderson School of Business, University of California at Los Angeles, 1979

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Ajunct Professor of Law, Law Program, Temple University-Japan (1994-1996)
Vice-Chairman, Financial Services Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (1995-1996)
Advisory Board, World Intellectual Property Review (BNA) (1995-1996)
Principal Editor, Securities and Banking Law Section of CCH's Japan Business Law Guide
Editor-in-Chief, UCLA-Alaska Law Review, 1977-1978
Chief Comment Editor, Federal Communications Law Journal, 1978-1979

ARTICLES:

Calling Time on Illegal Payments in Japan, International Financial Law Review (April 1995)
Escrow Set Up for Demands to Seize Pirate Brands, Knock-Off Products, World Intellectual Property Report (March 1995)
Government Revises Major IP Laws to Meet Commitments Under GATT, World Intellectual Property Report (February 1995)
U.S. Responds to Multimedia Proposal: BSA Launches Anti-Piracy Campaign, World Intellectual Property Report (January 1995)
Using Patents to Control Parallel Imports in Japan, World Intellectual Property Report (December 1994)
Reforms Give Increased Freedom to Japan¹s Banking Sector, International Financial Law Review (April 1994)
Japan's New Receivables Securitization Law, Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (Butterworths 1993)
Co-author, Private Placements of Equity Securities in Japan from Offshore, Butterworths Journal of international Banking and Financial Law (Butterworths 1990)