R. Kennedy Bridwell

Ken Bridwell brings over 35 years of business and legal experience to the art of dispute resolution. As a senior advisor, corporate officer, investment banker and attorney he has guided transactional, litigation, risk management, and organization processes for public and private, domestic and international, goods and services, kumpaniji.

Bridwell began his career as a tax attorney in North Carolina, and then represented private plaintiffs in antitrust litigation in the beer, newspaper and retail gasoline industries. He then joined the New Jersey legal department of SPG Energy, a NYSE diversified energy company with business units in oil and gas exploration, onshore drilling, oil refining and natural gas processing, retail gasoline stations, gas appliance manufacturing, propane distribution (Suburban Propane), and central station alarm services. -Ewwel bħala Avukat Assoċjat u mbagħad bħala Avukat Ġenerali hu ħoloq dipartiment legali servizz sħiħ responsabbli għall kollha tal-affarijiet legali tal-kumpannija, li jvarjaw minn konformità regolatorja matul l-ewwel kriżi tal-enerġija u programmi sussegwenti kontrolli pagi u tal-prezzijiet, biex ifakkar sikurezza tal-prodotti, għall-akkwisti u dispositions, għall-ġestjoni nazzjonali litigazzjoni, li impjegat disinn pjan ta 'benefiċċju u l-konformità, għar-relazzjonijiet Unjoni, għall-ħolqien u l-ġestjoni ta 'kumpannija offshore assigurazzjoni captive.

Bridwell transitioned from the legal to the business side by becoming SPG Energy’s Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and Development. It was in that role that he helped guide SPG Energy through the minefields of competing unfriendly tender offers into the arms of a white knight.

He was then recruited to be the General Counsel of a private medical equipment distributor and to prepare it for and lead it through a two-tier capital funding project consisting of a private placement and a subsequent public offering of common stock. Before the private placement could be completed, the owners received an offer they could not refuse, u Bridwell nnegozjat u għalqet ġbir flimkien ta 'tranżazzjoni ta' imgħax li taw is-sidien istokk komuni negozjabbli b'mod ħieles reġistrat fil-xerrej.

isfond transazzjonali saffi Bridwell tal wassluh għad-dinja tal-finanzi transkonfinali mal-kariga ta 'New York ta' bank ta 'investiment Awstraljan. Minbarra l-involviment tiegħu mal-U.S. tqegħid tat-titoli tal-Paċifiku Rim, sab ruħu jerġa involuti fl-esplorazzjoni taż-żejt u l-gass meta huwa qajjem b'suċċess finanzjament minn utilità pubblika Awstraljan għall-esplorazzjoni tal-gass offshore u l-produzzjoni fil-Filippini għal wildcatter Texas.

Wara l-bank ta 'investiment Awstraljana ġiet akkwistata minn DeutscheBank, Bridwell kien ġie ingaġġat biex joħolqu u jamministraw servizz sħiħ Amerika dipartiment legali għall Isvizzera bbażati SGS, akbar ispezzjoni fid-dinja, ittestjar, ċertifikazzjoni u l-verifika kumpanija ma 'operazzjonijiet f'aktar minn 140 pajjiżi. Minbarra l-immaniġġjar tal-ispettru kollu ta 'kwistjonijiet legali jiffaċċjaw in-negozji llum, bħal negozjati prekuntrattwali kummerċjali, real estate, kwistjonijiet ta 'xogħol u ta' impjieg, konformità regolatorja, amalgamazzjonijiet, akkwisti u dispositions, huwa rnexxielu ta 'litigazzjoni numru ta' każijiet annwali ta 'mill- 10 to 50 -materji fl-U.S., Kanada u l-Karibew, inklużi l-klassi u l-azzjonijiet kollettivi, u tkun irrappreżentata SGS fil-proċeduri numerużi riżoluzzjoni ta 'tilwim.

esperjenza SGS tiegħu inklużi disputi ammiraljat jinvolvu oġġetti kkontaminati jew bil-ħsara, indafa bastiment, korriment personali u ħsara bastiment, bastimenti jissoġġettaw għall-arrest f'portijiet barranin.

Iktar reċentament, Bridwell has served as the General Counsel for private engineering and environmental consulting firms that are not subject to the compliance burdens of SEC regulation. Beginning long before Sarbanes-Oxley, he wrote and installed Codes of Business Conduct, anonymous hotlines and other procedures in each of his companies both to promote ethical business conduct and to identify and deal quickly with allegations of misconduct. He has conducted numerous internal investigations and has had to confront possible criminal violations of law by corporate employees, in some cases working with federal investigators and prosecutors.

For over a decade, Bridwell kien medjatur pro bono fl-Qrati Talbiet New Jersey Ċivili Speċjali u żgħar jgħinu aktar minn ħames mitt litiganti isolvu t-tilwim tagħhom b'mod amikevoli mingħajr iż-żmien, spejjeż u riskji ta 'prova.

Fuq jiggradwaw mill Westminster Kulleġġ fil Missouri, Bridwell ssieħbu fl-Armata bħala Tieni Logutenent fil-Korp Sinjal. Huwa ngħata l-tifħir Midalja Armata għas-servizz tiegħu fil-Vjetnam. Wara li jħallu dazju militari attiv mal-grad ta Kaptan, hu gradwat mill-Gran Duka Università Law School, u aktar tard attenda-Programm Eżekuttiv fil-Business Administration fl-Columbia University Iskola tal-Gradwati ta 'Negozju. Bridwell hu liċenzjat biex jipprattika l-liġi fi New Jersey u North Carolina.