Philip F. Zeidman

• Franchise and distribution

• B.A., cum laude, Yale University
• LL.B., Harvard Law School

• Counsel to a number of U.S. and foreign companies and trade associations
• Engaged in an international transactional practice, testified on franchising before governmental bodies, participated in judicial and administrative proceedings, taught at universities, and appeared before business and professional groups in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, the People’s Republic of China, Poland, Portugal, Serbia-Montenegro, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey, and before the Commission of the European Union as well as before numerous U.S. congressional committees
• Retained to advise a number of international governmental organizations on the subject of franchising as a technique for international development, and for the privatization of state-owned enterprises by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris), for work in Central and Eastern Europe; by the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva), to assist in the development of its Franchising Guide for Developing Countries; by the International Center for Public Enterprises (Ljubljana), to help create an international franchising databank for use in transitional economies; by the International Executive Service Corps, to introduce franchising into Morocco; by Unidroit, a U.S.-affiliated agency (Rome), to advise on the issue of the regulation of international franchising; and by the U.S. Agency for International Development (for work with the Indian government, to assist black entrepreneurs in post-apartheid South Africa, and to assist the privatization agencies of the former Soviet Union)

• First chairman, ABA Antitrust Law Section, Committee on Franchising
• President, International Bar Association Foundation, Inc.
• Chairman, IBA International Franchising Committee

• Legal Aspects of Selling and Buying, 3d

Regular columnist for:
• International column “Franchise Times”
• “International Dateline” column, Franchising World, the magazine of the International Franchise Association
• Franchising column, Global Competition Review
• Franchise World, a U.K. publication

• “Homeland Security, Hard and Soft Targets, and the Architect,” National Convention of the American Institute of Architects
• “International Franchising,” presentation to visiting Russian delegation, U.S. Department of Commerce Special American Business Internship Training, Washington D.C.
• “The Unique Status of Franchising,” 43rd Annual Advanced Antitrust Seminar: Distribution & Marketing

• Interviewed on the CNNfn program Business Unusual in a segment about U.S. franchisors abroad in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center
• Gave the concluding remarks at a special session convened during the biennial conference of the International Bar Association on “Defending the Rule of Law: The Challenge of International Terrorism”

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