DETROIT – Butzel Long attorney Jerome Hill will serve as a moderator during the Ambassador Leonard Woodcock Legacy Seminar on September 16. C. Peter Theut, another Butzel Long attorney, will serve as one of the featured panelists.

Other panelists include W.S. (Bill) Chamberlain of JS Chamberlain and Associates, Inc., Consul General Huang Ping of PRC Consulate, Chicago, and Wei Shen, President, BridgeConnect Foundation and Marketing Manager for GM?s Premium Channel.

The Woodcock Legacy Seminar Series was established at Oakland University in 1990. Named in honor of Leonard Woodcock, former president of the United Auto Workers and first U.S. Ambassador to the People?s Republic of China, the program supports bilateral exchanges in education, business and industry, and research, with the goal of promoting mutual understanding between the United States and China.

The underlying objective of Woodcock Legacy activities is to advance positive Sino-American cultural, political, and economic relations. The first Woodcock Legacy seminar was presented in 1993 and began a decade long tradition of high quality public service programming for the governmental and business sectors. Designed to provide timely and relevant information to professionals and practitioners involved in China trade and international business development, as well as an appreciation of Chinese culture, the Woodcock seminars have earned a reputation for excellence.

C. Peter Theut

Based in the firm’s Ann Arbor office, Theut practices in the areas of international law, business and corporate law and admiralty and maritime law. He serves as Chair of the firm’s China Initiative, is the Butzel Long co-representative on the Executive Committee of the China Alliance and is the immediate past Chair of the firm’s Global Trade and Transaction Practice.

Theut has significant experience representing Pacific Rim-based companies in their North American operations, and advising European and Asian companies on international business and legal strategies. He has assisted U.S., Japanese and European companies in structuring investment strategies and establishing business entities in China, Mexico and Europe.

Theut also regularly assists China-based companies to establish, expand or invest in the U.S., Mexico or Europe and U.S. clients in establishing, expanding or investing in China-based businesses and operations.

Theut’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, coordination of global expansion efforts, general corporate law, international arbitration and international joint ventures. He regularly negotiates and documents China-related transactions and provides counsel with respect to capital structure, operating control, governance and related issues. Theut also has extensive experience with the financing, environmental and commercial aspects of waterfront development, with admiralty and maritime matters and with maritime arbitration.

Jerome D. Hill

Based in the firm’s Ann Arbor office, Hill also is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Honors College at Oakland University.

As an attorney, Hill has represented many clients in matters ranging from civil litigation and commercial business issues to labor negotiations and employment matters.

Hill has served as a China consultant and legal adviser to numerous auto industry clients by creating business entities in China, assisting with developing business plans, resolving employment/labor issues, solving repatriation of funds difficulties, and resolving related technical legal problems.

While doing his graduate studies in Chinese language and philosophy, Hill taught at Hong Kong University and Chinese University of Hong Kong. While overseas, Hill conducted research in traditional Confucian and Taoist theories as well as modern Chinese Marxist ideology. Original Chinese texts were examined and evaluated by Hill.

At Oakland University, Hill has taught courses in Chinese culture and offered symposia on China, Japan and the social, political and economic relations between Pacific Rim countries. He has lectured at various universities on topics ranging from traditional Chinese social and political theory to modern controversies surrounding the Chinese Commonwealth, Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. Hill has offered lectures also on comparative legal systems and business practices in Asia and the United States. Hill has been designated an “honorary citizen” in China for his work in Guizhou Province.

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