Brian Donovan

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Brian Donovan’s Summary

Brian J. Donovan, an active member of The Council of Advisors
of The Gerson Lehrman Group and The Society of Industry
Leaders of Vista Research, is an attorney and engineer with
thirty years of international business experience. Since
graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1975,
Brian has lived and worked throughout the world, initially as a
marine engineer in the North Sea for J. Ray McDermott and
later as Senior Project Manager - Foreign Operations for
Offshore Logistics, Inc.

In 1982, he founded B. Donovan & Associates, Inc., an
engineering and international business development firm.
His broad-based international business experience has
involved the invention and patenting of a Blowout Suppression
System for use in the oil & gas exploration industry, a
ships-for-goods countertrade program with the former Soviet
Union, the negotiation for the development of offshore oil & gas
properties in Latin America, privatization acquisitions in the
Mercosur, Venezuela and Panama, and the development of a
casino resort project in Uruguay.

Brian, a member of The Florida Bar, The U.S. District Court,
Middle District of Florida and The United States Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, is uniquely qualified to
cost-effectively combine excellent legal skills with the
practical cultural, political and financial advice necessary to
ensure his client's success. His law firm concentrates on
international business development, business law
(U.S. and international), securities law and corporate law.

International Experience
- Angola, Argentina, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Panama,
Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Uruguay,
and Venezuela.

Admitted to Practice
- Florida.
- United States District Court, Middle District of Florida.
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Languages
- English, Spanish & Portuguese.

Brian Donovan’s Specialties:

(a) international business development (technology transfer, joint ventures, M&A, franchise development, import/export);
(b) energy (offshore E&P, wind energy, and sugarcane-to-ethanol / sweet sorghum-to-ethanol production);
(c) maritime transportation;
(d) international legal & political risk analysis;
(e) domestication and execution of foreign judgments in the State of Florida under the Uniform Foreign Money Judgment Recognition Act; and
(f) USPTO & foreign patent defensibility analysis.