THE WALLENSTEIN LAW GROUP - Key Persons
Amy L. Sommers is an American lawyer whose career has focused on China-related matters. Her involvement in China goes back over 30 years, when...
Sophie started her legal career in 2010. She is a China and US licensed lawyer with deep experience serving as in-house counsel to a major enterprise….
Andrew Lopez is a graduate of Columbia University and the New York University Law School. He is admitted to practice in Alaska, Colorado and New York. Before moving his practice to Colorado in 2009, Andrew was an associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Management Groups in the law firm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in New York City. After Skadden, Andrew worked as an Assistant General Counsel for a multi-platform consulting and merchant banking firm focused on the gaming and hospitality industry. Andrew is also the founder and managing-member of Sequoia Legal, LLC headquartered in Denver.
Hunter advises clients on international trade, general corporate and healthcare compliance matters. Hunter's international practice focuses on compliance with…
Brian Fonville earned his J.D. from Stanford, as well as a Master's Degree in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has worked as a transactional lawyer specializing in corporate and financial matters in New York City, his home state of North Carolina, and in Prague. He has also worked for the CEELI Institute in Prague and held internships with the EBRD, OECD, Earthjustice, and the Office of Czech President Václav Havel. Brian is a native English speaker and fluent in Czech, French, and Slovak, and has significant experience with cross-border commercial transactions, software licenses, and investment funds.
He operates his law practice out of Prague (www.fonvillelegal.com) and is a member of the bar in New York State, the Czech Republic, and England and Wales.
Candace Jasso is a highly effective ethics and compliance professional who has designed, implemented and managed compliance...
Christopher Guzelian, Of Counsel to the Wallenstein Law Group, is also a law professor at both Texas State University (San Marcos) and Texas A&M…
Andrew advises domestic and foreign companies and organizations, entrepreneurs and individuals on a variety of corporate and international regulatory….
Christopher Guzelian, Of Counsel to the Wallenstein Law Group, is also a law professor at both Texas State University (San Marcos) and Texas A&M University Law School.
Prior to his move to Texas, he was a tenured business, constitutional, and criminal law professor in California with dozens of publications on a wide variety of topics in leading academic law journals, and was selected by students as Professor of the Year in 2016.
Amy L. Sommers is an American lawyer whose career has focused on China-related matters. Her involvement in China goes back over 30 years, when...
Michael Katz was part of BP's global privacy team being BP's Data Privacy Manager for the US and the Regional Privacy Coordinator for the Americas....
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- Managing Member
- Compliance Expert
- Member of the District of Columbia Bar
- Member of the New York Bar
- Member of the Texas Bar
Josh is a licensed member of the District of Columbia Bar (attorney registration no. 490933).
Christina Murray is a Denver native and a graduate of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Upon graduation, Christina was awarded the Irving...
Josh Wallenstein is an accomplished attorney and compliance expert. He is the Managing Member of The Wallenstein Law Group, a boutique legal practice specializing in business, compliance, and general legal matters headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Josh has served as outside counsel in engagements across the globe for a variety of industries. He offers his clients practical, no-nonsense solutions to a wide variety of legal concerns. Josh developed this approach from almost 20 years of global legal, compliance, and risk management experience.
Additionally, he has successfully negotiated with US and international enforcement agencies and with multiple monitors imposed by the US Department of Justice.
During his law studies, Mr. Wallenstein interned at the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (the United Nations) and Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the Organization of American States). After graduation and prior to forming his firm, Josh led a successful Big Law banking practice in New York. He was later recruited for in-house positions in Mexico City, Dubai, and various US cities, the most recent being Chief Compliance Officer for a public international oil services company.
As outside counsel, Josh possesses a unique cultural and linguistic sensitivity that ensures effective counsel for his clients. The breadth and depth of his experience has made him the attorney of choice for complex international matters. (As an example, he recently was appointed the Compliance Expert in a World Bank debarment matter.)
Josh holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and is a member of the Texas, New York, and District of Columbia bars. He is also a published author and frequent public speaker on legal and compliance-related issues, and was twice a Finalist for Best Assistant General Counsel by the Houston Business Journal.
Mr. Wallenstein lives in Houston with his wife, Luciana - a native of Brazil - and his son, Noah, along with a ferocious Mexican toy poodle named Teka.
Job Titles:
- Sanctions & Trade Controls Expert
With 40+ years of operational experience in international trade, Martha offers subject matter expertise in Sanctions, Antiboycott….
Michael Katz was part of BP's global privacy team being BP's Data Privacy Manager for the US and the Regional Privacy Coordinator for the Americas.
Michael has over 16 years' experience in Privacy management and was responsible for implementing BP's global privacy program in the US and the Americas. While Michael's data privacy remit is all encompassing, Michael's specialty is in risk assessment, containment and mitigation, including conducting privacy audits both internally and at supplier locations globally. In this role he has developed numerous audit approaches and risk assessment tools which were deployed by BP globally.
As part of the global privacy team Michael was responsible developing and implementing, on a global scale, processes and tools to support compliance with European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Michael has a Master's Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and is a member of the American Petroleum Institute's Data Privacy council and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Michael is a Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Michael has also been recognized as a Fellow in Privacy (FIP) by the IAPP.