William Eugene Jessup, J.D., LL.M.

Representing corporations, partnerships, and individuals in general practice, meeting civil and criminal law demands: handling matters of contract law and international trade, taxation, labor and employment law, employee benefits, ERISA, health care regulatory law, media and sports law, licensing & IP protection, telecommunications, insurance, anticorruption & AML, antitrust, real property, admiralty, maritime and aviation law; banking and finance, and administrative law. Won US District Court decision for plaintiff-client against nation's largest union pension trust fund, meeting ERISA’s "arbitrary and capricious" standard of proof Re: trustees' culpability for denying client's claim for contributions misappropriated by employer; Defended judgment successfully before US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. At Commissioner’s request, drafted Players Agreement (employment contract) for Global Basketball Association and addressed enforcement and search and seizure issues in Common Law and Civil Code jurisdictions.

Representing, advising corporations & individuals in Common Law & Civil Code jurisdictions: commercial and M&A matters; establishing and ending business entities (i.e., LLC, LLP, JSC, FZCO, et.al.); contract drafting, resolving disputes b/t shareholders, franchisors/franchisees; meeting all legal needs of UAE government’s system of 20+ colleges; drafting corporate government documents, real property sales/leases (e.g. JV Agreements, MOUs, SPVs, NDAs, et.al..) and RFP bids for governmental and NGE construction (EPC, FIDIC); drafting banking & finance contracts to enable oil & gas projects in GCC & MENA; applying GCC treaties Re: judgments of courts of member states; drafting AML and FCPA-compliance documents (also UK Bribery Act), demand letters and pleadings; licensing & IP protection: meeting legal needs of State-owned telecommunication clients; facilitating franchised luxury clubs’ expansion worldwide; meeting legal needs of worldwide racing boat organization; applying/interpreting UAE and UAE/GCC countries’ statutes/regs for securities/commodities exchanges, State-private entity partnerships, and clients’ ventures Re: labor & employment law, antitrust/competition, insurance, securitization and aviation law.

Representing corporations, partnerships, and individuals in general practice, meeting civil and criminal law demands: handling matters of contract law and international trade, taxation, insurance, anticorruption & AML, antitrust, real property, admiralty, maritime and aviation law; banking and finance, licensing & IP protection, telecommunications, media and sports law, labor law, employee benefits, ERISA, health care regulatory law, and administrative law. Won US District Court decision for plaintiff-client against nation's largest union pension trust fund, meeting ERISA’s "arbitrary and capricious" standard of proof Re: trustees' culpability for denying client's claim for contributions misappropriated by employer; Defended judgment successfully before US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. At Commissioner’s request, drafted Players Agreement (employment contract) for Global Basketball Association and addressed enforcement and search and seizure issues in Common Law and Civil Code jurisdictions.

Negotiated and drafted contracts to facilitate the privatization of Kuwait’s state airline; Resolved Kuwait real estate company’s purchase dispute with UAE skyscraper developer (issues of attempted coercion of purchaser by deliberate contract misinterpretation & duress); Advised Kuwaiti distributor/agent of Japanese manufacturer of marine products on principal’s proposed replacement contract: delivered comprehensive financial, admiralty/maritime and antitrust/competition analysis; Advised electric power-generating and construction arm of (another) giant Japanese conglomerate on subcontractor’s EPC casualty/insurance liability; Advised American publisher/producer of on-line securities trading web site on Kuwait agency laws, licensing & IP protection; addressed clients’ admiralty, maritime and aviation law matters; Drafted firm’s Comment on the Kuwaiti Parliament’s 2007 amendment to Income Tax Decree No. 3 of 1955, as amended by Law No. 2 of 2008.

Representing corporations, partnerships, and individuals in general practice, meeting civil and criminal law demands: handling matters of contract law and international trade, taxation, insurance, anticorruption & AML, antitrust, real property, admiralty, maritime and aviation law; banking and finance, licensing & IP protection, telecommunications, media and sports law, labor law, employee benefits, ERISA, health care regulatory law, and administrative law. Won US District Court decision for plaintiff-client against nation's largest union pension trust fund, meeting ERISA’s "arbitrary and capricious" standard of proof Re: trustees' culpability for denying client's claim for contributions misappropriated by employer; Defended judgment successfully before US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. At Commissioner’s request, drafted Players Agreement (employment contract) for Global Basketball Association and addressed enforcement and search and seizure issues in Common Law and Civil Code jurisdictions.

Handled legal responsibilities of City Airports and lessees, enforced the Federal Aviation Regulations (“FARs”) and filed City’s license and grants applications with FAA, FTA and GDOT (aviation law matters); represented Macon-Bibb County Centreplex and Coliseum, professional sports tenants, and City's Public Works Department. Advised separate Boards of Trustees of City’s Retirement Systems (pension/taxation law matters); drafted municipal Professional Occupation Tax statutes and other City Code ordinances; Negotiated and drafted procurement, RFP’s, and real property sales, leases, and construction and demolition contracts with suppliers, lessees/tenants, buyers, architects and contractors; Redrafted City’s complex construction and demolition contracts, several of which had been published by the American Institute of Architects for adoption by architects and contractors; nullified the bias that those contracts facilitated, which could have saddled City with great liability.