LAWRENCE E. KOSLOW

Lawrence E. Koslow is an accomplished attorney and business expert in the areas of domestic and international corporate law. He has worked for two Fortune 500 companies (The Square D Company and Control Data Corporation where he represented that corporation in its claim before the U.S. – Iran Claims Tribunal in The Hague) and was Vice President and Chair of the International Business Practice at Fredrikson & Byron P.A., an AV Rated law firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

In 1998, he returned to private practice and business consulting, working with a diverse cross-section of domestic and international clients.  His international clients include companies and individuals from Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe, Mexico and other parts of Latin America.  Koslow was one of the creators of The Minnesota Principles for Global Business Behavior that are now the Caux Roundtable Principles For Business.

Koslow has developed special expertise on Mexico having lived both in Mexico City and Guadalajara.  He is the author of a widely praised book on Mexico and has developed a network of contacts at most of the major law firms in the Mexican Republic.  He has also served on the Board of Directors of Mexico’s major turkey products company.

Dr. Koslow holds a B.A. and M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.  His J.D. is from the Arizona State University.  Koslow has lived abroad on a number of occasions and is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. He has been a Professor at Arizona State University, the Thunderbird School of Global Management and the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) where he was one of the founders of its Masters in International Management (MIM) Program. 

Koslow is the author of four books.  The Future of Mexico (1977); Business Abroad (1996); Global Business: 308 Tips To Take Your Company Worldwide (1999); and an ebook, Doing Business in the United States of America (2007).  He has written numerous articles including those published in the ACCA Docket, Family Business Magazine and the William Mitchell Law Journal.

Dale B. Furnish

Dale B. Furnish has been a Professor at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law since 1970, and Emeritus since 2004, he has specialized in Commercial Law, Comparative Law and International Trade. He served as a Visiting Professor at Michigan (1968-69), Iowa (Spring 1977), Illinois (1977-78), Houston (1983-84), San Diego (Summers 1977, 1980) and Baylor (Summers 2000-2010).

From 1988 to 1992, Furnish practiced law in Phoenix as a shareholder in Molloy, Jones & Donahue, P.C., emphasizing bankruptcy and commercial litigation, drafting the documentation of bank loans and leveraged buyouts, and handling international trade matters.  A member of the Arizona State Bar since 1973, he has consulted as an expert witness on United States commercial law and on the law of Latin American countries including Mexico, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina for law firms in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Mexico City and Arizona. He is on the roster of United States arbitrators for Chapter 19 of the NAFTA. In 2003, the Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) named him a Supernumerary Member. Since 2004, Furnish has practiced law emphasizing commercial and international matters.

Furnish serves as a Director of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, located in Tucson, Arizona, and is actively engaged in Commercial Law reform in Central America and beyond.  Furnish participated in the drafting of the OAS’s 2002 Model Law on Secured Transactions (so far adopted in México, Perú, Guatemala and Honduras) and its companion 2009 OAS Model Regulations for Commercial Registries, and in drafting other international conventions and model commercial laws.  In Arizona, he participated in drafting state laws on creditors’ provisional remedies against debtors, garnishment, and fraudulent transfers, as well as the adoption of revised versions of Uniform Commercial Code Article 8 and Article 9 (twice) and regulations for the Arizona Secretary of State’s Article 9 Registry.  He also helped draft local rules for the federal Bankruptcy Court.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Furnish has taught a total of seven years as a Visiting Professor in Perú (U Católica—two semesters) and México (UNAM—one year; UNISON—five years).  He has published over 85 items including monographs, teaching materials, scholarly articles and book chapters, over 20 of them in Spanish.

Dale Furnish earned his BA with Honors in History from Grinnell College in 1962, his JD from  the University of Iowa in 1965, and his LLM from the University of Michigan in 1970. As a child, he lived in Venezuela (1947-1950) and Saudi Arabia (1950-53), and as an adult in Perú (1966-68), Chile (1969-70) and Mexico (1974-75). Since 1970, he has taught short courses and/or given lecture series in every country in Latin America, except Cuba.

ELEAZAR JIMÉNEZ ZAMARANO

Mr. Jiménez is a law graduate of the Universidad of Sonora, Mexico, and has a Masters of Law in International Trade from the College of Law at the University of Arizona.  He is also a Mexican Notary Public.  Mr. Jiménez has been a Professor of both Public and Private International Law at the Universidad de Hermosillo and has served as the President of the State Bar of Sonora, Mexico from 2003-2005, and is also on the Board of Directors (Prosecretario) of the Colegio de Notarios del Estado de Sonora. He is fluent in Spanish and English.

ROBERT SCARLETT

Mr. Scarlett is a graduate of Carleton College and has completed graduate work in international business at the University of St. Thomas – Minnesota.  He is a specialist in export market and venture development with over 45 years’ experience in Latin America. 

Rob is fluent in English, Spanish, German,  Portuguese and conversant in French, having grown up in a number of countries; including Australia, Canada, Germany, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru.  He has intimate market knowledge and a business network that extends from Canada, the USA and Mexico all the way to the southern tip of Chile and Argentina.  Rob is the co-author with Lawrence Koslow, of the book, Global Business - 308 Tips To Take Your Company Worldwide.

TERESA HERNANDEZ KOSLOW

Ms. Hernandez-Koslow has a Masters of International Management from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota).  She has taught at the University of St. Thomas and the Catholic University of Uruguay.  Ms. Hernandez-Koslow does counseling for both families and businesses and has a strong background in intercultural communications and in working with foreign investors.  She is bilingual in English and Spanish.