Mr. Beha is a commercial, international and corporate transactional lawyer and advisor. He counsels and represents clients in international and domestic joint ventures, technology transfers, licenses, M&A transactions, and dispute resolution as well as corporate and contractual matters, including entity formation, vendor and sourcing contracts, distribution arrangements, financing and other business agreements.
Mr. Beha began his legal career at a law firm in New York City representing European clients with business and investment interests in the United States. He joined the legal department of Control Data Corporation, a multi-billion dollar computer company, as its Asian Legal Counsel, entering into some of the first technology transfers to China following the opening to the West in the early 1980s. He rose to become division counsel of the computer manufacturing and marketing division, and later General Counsel of the NASDAQ-traded spin-off of that division from CDC. Mr. Beha managed the legal affairs of that company for five years, including intellectual property counsel within the company, and he provided legal counsel for the establishment of numerous strategic business relationships for the company, including software and hardware technology joint ventures. Mr. Beha later served as Vice President – Law and Corporate Secretary to Carlson Companies, a large travel, marketing and hospitality conglomerate, where he acted as General Counsel to the luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises as well. He provided counsel on the establishment and growth of the cruise line’s international joint venture relationships and asset-based Eurodollar financings, as well as managing significant litigation involving technical problems with certain cruise ship components. He also served as in-house counsel in the cruise line’s acquisitions and ultimate disposition. For ten years, Mr. Beha taught Asian Political Economy in an international M.B.A. program at the University of St. Thomas in the Twin Cities, during which Mr. Beha gave numerous lectures and presentations on the business and legal aspects of transactions in China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and the rest of Asia and South Asia.