Education
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University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., Virginia Journal of International Law, 1974
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Princeton University, A.B., 1971
Bar Admissions
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Jay Gladis serves as senior counselor to enterprises engaged in substantial transnational business transactions. Mr. Gladis possesses more than 30 years of experience as general outside counsel and lead transactional counsel for prominent, international clients from Japan, Europe, and the Middle East across a wide variety of industries, dealing extensively with the unique challenges of transnational transactional practice, including culture, communications, foreign laws, politics, and bureaucracy.
Specifically, Mr. Gladis is directly involved in strategic commercial planning matters such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, joint development arrangements, licenses, franchises, reorganizations, corporate securities, and financial transactions. He has front-line experience with clients’ commercial affairs, including contracts, intellectual property, corporate governance, personnel, real property, bankruptcy, and litigation. Mr. Gladis has also handled IT and BPO outsourcing arrangements, both onshore and offshore, as well as other commoditization transactions.
Mr. Gladis was previously a partner at two major international law firms, most recently as a capital partner at one of Am Law’s 30 largest firms. Earlier in his career, he worked for two years as a foreign legal trainee at one of Japan’s largest international business firms.
Representative Matters:
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Counsel recommended to M&A clients of Japanese industrial development bank for acquisitions in the United States and, later, counsel to the bank in establishing its M&A broker-dealer subsidiary in the United States.
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Lead counsel to public Japanese imaging products manufacturer in $1.5 billion purchase of half of a global office solutions company’s stake in a Japanese joint venture (transaction conducted in Japan).
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Lead counsel to public Japanese imaging products manufacturer in “rolling up” stand-alone photofinishing enterprises; culminated in negotiation of the multi-million dollar outsourcing of the entire retail photofinishing operation of the world’s second-largest corporation.
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Lead counsel to Japanese marketing and advertising company in acquiring advertising agencies in the United States.
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Lead counsel to Japanese beverage manufacturer in establishing joint venture to develop and market premium liquor products.
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Counsel to European-owned consulting company in negotiating outsourcing of IT and BPO functions of numerous clients (including one of the world’s largest information technology corporations and a global pharmaceutical and medical device company) and worldwide ERP implementation at the United Nations.
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Established offshore funds-of-funds to make Shariah-compliant private equity investments for Middle Eastern investors.
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Lead counsel to Spanish telecommunications firm in negotiating the $160 million acquisition of well-known U.S. web site.
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Represented sizeable, Japan-based companies in Euro Medium-Term Note and commercial paper programs.
Professional Affiliations:
American Bar Association, Business Law Section and International Practice Section
- Chair, American Bar Association Committee on International
Securities Practice, 1993-94
- Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative
New York City Bar Association
Japan Society (New York, NY)
Asia Society (New York, NY)
Counsel, Unite for Sight, Inc. (pro bono)
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