About the Author
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Eugene Pak is a Partner and craft beer attorney at Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP and heads its Craft Beer Law practice. For over 20 years, Eugene has advised clients on a wide range of legal issues. His current practice includes advising clients on advertising & marketing issues, commercial litigation, distribution contracts, employment law, financing, general business law, trademarks & copyrights, and TTB/ABC issues. Eugene acts as general counsel to craft breweries, advising them on various legal issues that affect craft breweries, and drawing on the expertise and experience of his colleagues as needed (see below). Prior to joining Wendel Rosen, he worked at large international and national law firms in San Francisco and was in-house counsel at a Silicon Valley technology company.
Eugene has represented both Fortune 500 companies as well as start-ups in federal and state court litigation and in business transactions. He is also an experienced trademark and copyright counselor and litigator. He has managed trademark portfolios for clients with hundreds of trademarks worldwide as well as start-ups and entrepreneurs, and has litigated numerous trademark and copyright disputes. Earlier in his career, Eugene also litigated Commerce Clause cases involving state milk standards and pooling regulations, as well as class action cases brought under B&P Code 17200. Eugene has been a speaker at the Brewers Association's Craft Brewers Conference, the California Craft Brewers Association meetings, Brewbound Session (San Diego), the Craft Beverage Expo, and the Sonoma County Beer, Cider & Spirits Conference. He has been quoted by CBS Radio, Paste Magazine, Brewbound, All About Beer, Entrepreneur.com, The Daily Journal, The Recorder, and other media outlets on legal issues affecting the craft beverage industry. Eugene is an instructor on legal issues for the Food Craft Institute's "Business of Beer" course. He has also been a speaker on panels before various legal associations including the American Bar Association (ABA), Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), International Trademark Association (INTA), International Association of Korean Lawyers (IAKL), National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), Practicing Law Institute (PLI), and the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF). Eugene received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) where he was an Associate Editor for the California Law Review. He grew up in Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan. Eugene lives in the SF Bay Area with his two daughters and Volpino (a dog, not a car). He enjoys citrusy IPAs and sour beers, as well as a good Imperial or chocolate stout. |
About Wendel Rosen
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Since 1909, Wendel Rosen Black & Dean LLP (Oakland, CA) has served as trusted legal counsel to individuals, businesses and public entities. Over the course of this time we've learned a few things: Do great legal work. Provide exceptional legal services. And understand the needs of the clients we serve. We haven't forgotten that in our over 100 years. Wendel Rosen provides strategic and practical legal advice our clients to succeed and grow.
We advise Food and Beverage companies from initial entity formation to succession planning, and almost everything in between. Wendel Rosen represent 5 of the top 25 largest food & beverage companies in the SF Bay Area (two are craft breweries), as well as many start-up breweries and others in the food & beverage industry. We are an experienced and diverse group who understand and care about our clients' individual business and the larger industry in which they operate.
Our Craft Beer Law Practice consists of experienced attorneys who advise craft breweries and others in the industry on everything from entity formation and governance, finance, employment, trademarks & copyrights, advertising & marketing, social media, real estate. land use & leases, distribution contracts, litigation, and ABC/TTB issues. Representative matters for breweries, restaurants, and other food & beverage clients include:
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Wendel Rosen is an allied member of both the national Brewers Association and the California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA) and is an annual sponsor of SF Beer Week. The Firm is a certified B Corporation and was the first law firm in the country to be third-party certified as a green business (by the Bay Area Green Business Program in 2003). Our Green Business Group is a member of 1% For The Planet.
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We have twice been named to The National Law Journal's "Hot List" of top mid-size law firms in the country, in 2009 and 2014, one of only twenty mid-size firms in the country making the List in those years. We are also a member of the Legal Network Alliance, a global alliance of carefully selected, midsized, general practice, independent law firms, selected for membership because they represent a high level of quality and integrity. Read More at our Website.
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Email: epak@wendel.com | Phone: 510.834-6600 | Twitter: @beerattorney