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Mr. Solton received his LLM from Georgetown University Law Center and has a degree in International Law, with distinction, from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where he also completed significant Ph.D. course work. Mr. Solton is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and in the Russian Federation. Prior to entering the private practice of law, Mr. Solton served as a diplomat in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the time of his departure from the Ministry he held the diplomatic rank of third secretary. He later served as in-house counsel in Moscow-based U.S.- Russian companies in the entertainment and publishing industries, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the International Publishing Bureau of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has worked at the Washington, D.C. firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, and was a partner at the New York firm of Eaton & Van Winkle LLP. Michael Solton practices in domestic and international corporate law, international business transactions and international intellectual property law. Mr. Solton has represented large corporate clients in cross-border corporate and commercial transactions both in the United States and internationally, with a focus on Russia. He has represented large Western multi-nationals in Russia and the U.S. in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, and financing, as well as in state enterprise privatizations and auctions. He also has wide experience in representing clients in computer software and high technology transfer and licensing transactions, copyright, trademark and other intellectual property matters. Mr. Solton’s international corporate clients have included some of the largest international and Russian finance institutions, U.S. and Canadian venture capitalists, the largest Ukrainian automaker, a Danish wood products manufacturer with international production and distribution facilities, U.S. and Russian high-tech companies, leading French, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian telecommunications companies and major U.S. aerospace corporations. He has given lectures, conducted seminars and wrote articles on Russian business law and intellectual property law. He is fluent in Russian and French.
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Michael Solton, Of Counsel