Grace Parke Fremlin

Partner

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Grace Parke Fremlin is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she is a member of the Business Solutions, International, and Technology Departments. 

Ms. Fremlin is an authority in cross-border international contracts, foreign direct investments, and private company mergers and acquisitions. Her practice focuses on foreign operating subsidiaries, joint ventures, branches and representative offices, distribution agreements, technology transfers, IP licensing arrangements and counseling on China IP protection and enforcement, international dispute settlement, litigation, and arbitration.

She concentrates on sourcing arrangements, manufacturing investments, distribution networks, supply contracts, purchase and sale agreements, commercial loans, project finance, commercial real estate purchases and developments, employment and labor agreements and financing arrangements, all in the cross-border context.

Ms. Fremlin establishes offshore corporate ownership structures for investments abroad. Ms. Fremlin worked with Asia's Fortune 1000 companies and foreign governments in the United States and major US companies and US government entities with their investments and operations in Asia.

As lead counsel on investments, acquisitions, and commercial transactions, Ms. Fremlin possesses keen ability to identify, articulate, and focus on strategic and critical legal and business issues, and offers clients thoughtful and workable solutions.  

Ms. Fremlin speaks Korean and has studied Japanese and Mandarin.

Select News & Events

• ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) Launch of Generic Top Level Domains, 2011 IAKL Annual Conference, October 1, 2011
• IP Contracts in China, USPTO China Road Show Conference, April 7, 2011
• REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemical Substances) Registration Exposition, July 22, 2008
• Doing Business in the Global Economy, January 31, 2008, Surfaces 2008
• China IP Protection and Enforcement, CLE for State Bar of AZ, February 2007
• Doing Business in China, June 2006, CLE Course for DC Bar
• Grace Fremlin Joins International Transactions Practice

Selected Publications

• Treasury Cash Grants under ARRA
  October 2009, LexisNexis Emerging Issues Analysis
• Careful Contracts Reduce Risk
  January 2008, China Business Review
• Trading and Distribution Rights Opening Up in China
  Spring 2006, Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal

Professional Affiliations

• Korean American Bar Association, DC, Director, 2009-2012
• Asia Society of Washington, DC, Advisory Board, 2003-present
• Asia Task Force, US Chamber of Commerce, 2003-2005
• US-China Business Council, 2005-present
• US-Korea Business Council, 2003-present
• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, International Committee Co-Chair, 2009-present
• Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, 2003-2005
• The Economist Conferences, Hong Kong, 1997-1999
• American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong, 1997-1999
• Women's Bar Association Foundation of DC, Board of Directors, 1993-1996