BARTON

SELDEN

Partner


(415) 788 6230 T

(415) 788 7009 F



bselden@ggwslaw.com


EDUCATION

LL.M., International and
Comparative Law, magna
cum laude, Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium, 1985

J.D., Boalt Hall, University of
California Berkeley, 1983

B.A., Political Science, cum
laude, University of
California Irvine, 1979

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Selden advises clients on international trade and business transactions, providing guidance for European and Asian companies on their activities in the United States, and for U.S. entities in their foreign activities. His clients include producers of industrial, construction and consumer products, and suppliers of services including transportation, food, television broadcasting, and computer software.

Mr. Selden provides direct legal services in the formation of U.S. subsidiaries and related companies, registration and enforcement of trademarks, intellectual property licensing, distribution and agency agreements, employment matters, and civil litigation.

For companies that cannot dedicate a member of the legal department to oversee matters in the United States, Mr. Selden functions as an outside General Counsel, providing a single point of contact for the overseas client in working with the various attorneys needed to follow matters in particular states or in specialized fields of law.

Mr. Selden holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Boalt Hall, and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law, magna cum laude, from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has repeatedly been named one of Northern California's "Super Lawyers," and recently spent the Spring 2008 semester teaching classes on International Business Transactions and Intellectual Property Law at the Prague University of Economics, as the recipient of a Fulbright award.

He is an Adjunct Professor of International Business Transactions and European Law at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. He lectures frequently at Italian universities, including Ca' Foscari in Venice, the University of Bologna, and the University of Pavia, on subjects of international trade, commercial law and intellectual property. Mr. Selden also teaches an annual intensive course on U.S. Trademark Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Mr. Selden is fluent in Italian.

For 2009 and 2010, Mr. Selden is the Co-Chair of the Agency and Distribution Agreements Subcommittee of the International Bar Association's International Sales Committee.

PUBLICATIONS AND TALKS