FREDERICK H. DULLES
Frederick H. Dulles is an American international business lawyer with extensive experience in multinational transactions. He is Of Counsel to Ten State International Law PLLC. He works on corporate, commercial, finance, securities and shipping matters, as well as the EB-5 immigrant entrepreneur investor program.
He is a Visiting Professor at The Citadel School of Business Administration where he teaches negotiation and conflict resolution in the MBA program. During 2006-07 he was the John S. Grinalds Leader-in-Residence for 2006-2007 at The Citadel. He has also recently taught international law at the Charleston School of Law, international business transactions and international commercial arbitration at the University of South Carolina Law School, and negotiation at Boston University.
He is an Independent Trustee of the Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS) / Sun Life Compass Mutual Funds Group, where he serves on the Compliance & Governance, Operations and Contract Review Committees.
He has been active in international commercial arbitration for many years, and he has acted as a court-appointed mediator in business and commercial matters.
Mr. Dulles graduated from Harvard College, AB cum laude in Economics, and he earned his J.D. and M.B.A. (Finance) degrees from Columbia University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy after graduate school. He lived and worked 18 years in France, Switzerland and England, and he has worked on location in over 30 countries in West, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is fluent in French and he has some knowledge of Dutch, German, Spanish and Russian.
He began his legal career with Shearman & Sterling in New York and Paris. He then spent 12 years with Philip Morris, first as Assistant General Counsel (International) in New York, when he was the responsible lawyer on the leading European competition law Philip Morris case. Then in Lausanne, Switzerland, he was Philip Morris’s Regional Counsel & Legal Director for Scandinavia, Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Switzerland. In 1993, he returned to the private practice of law, and he assisted Philip Morris and Kraft Jacobs Suchard in Lithuania’s first hard currency privatizations. He became a Partner with McDermott, Will & Emery in Lausanne and London and opened and managed their office in St. Petersburg during the first years of Russia’s new democracy and free enterprise economy. From 1997 to 2003 he was a Member of McFadden, Pilkington & Ward in London and New York. He ran the legal affairs of an historic English saddle and luxury leather goods company, developed plans for a hotel-casino project in Sakhalin, Russia, and recovered client investments in fraudulent high yield investment schemes. In 2000-01, he was the legal expert on a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development to restructure and privatize the Madagascar National Savings Fund.
Mr. Dulles is a member of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. He serves on the Boston University Metropolitan College Dean’s Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association and an Institute Fellow of the George Washington University Institute for International Corporate Governance and Accountability. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of City of New York, the International Arbitration Institute, the International Bar Association, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the Swiss Arbitration Association. He has been a member of the International Advisory Council of the Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and he was a Candidate for the Harvard University Board of Overseers in 2002. He was a Trustee of the American University of Paris, 2001-04.
Mr. Dulles is admitted to the bar in South Carolina, New York and the District of Columbia. He grew up in New York City and attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In college and graduate school, he was on the International Executive Committee of the AIESEC international business student exchange program. He loves sailing. He, his wife and his daughter live in Charleston.
Address: 57 Tradd Street, Charleston, South Carolina 29401-2529. Telephone:(843)8179686. Fax (843) 746-4796. Email: . 70805