CLARK D. BIEN

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Yuma, Arizona 85364

Telephone: 928-***-****

Mobile: 928-***-****

E-mail: abnjyo@r.postjobfree.com

WORK HISTORY

**** ** *******: Gowan Company, LLC Yuma,

Arizona

General Counsel

Responsible for the legal management of Group of Companies

(approximately 30 entities), including hiring and directing

outside counsel and internal staff, with particular emphasis on

regulatory and intellectual property matters (acquiring, licensing

and protecting patents, registrations, trademarks and data

regarding pesticides). Also responsible for litigation

management, acquisitions, divestitures, bankruptcy, joint

ventures, construction, engineering, consulting, supply,

distribution and sales contracts worldwide. Completed group

corporate and tax restructuring in 2006, as well as several

significant acquisitions.

2002 to 2005: Great Lakes Ingredients, LLC Ann Arbor,

Michigan

Member & General Counsel

Responsible for the management of Company. Developed

programs for the manufacture and importation of cost-

advantaged food products, including tariff engineering.

Consulting services to industrial food manufacturers, including

tariff engineering, advice on international sourcing of

ingredients, identification of and negotiation with acquisition

targets, construction contract management and liquor licensing.

1982-2002: Streamline Foods, Inc. West Bloomfield, Michigan

Total Foods Corporation

Arbor Foods, Inc.

Secretary & General Counsel to an evolving group of

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privately held companies (same job, different entities).

Responsible for all aspects of legal management, including

hiring and supervision of outside counsel and internal staff.

Responsible for the legal management of Total Foods

Corporation, Streamline Foods, Inc., Arbor Foods, Inc. and their

subsidiaries, including litigation and risk management,

acquisitions and divestitures, reorganization of distressed

businesses, contracts, customs and international trade, collective

bargaining, financing, litigation, insurance and administrative

matters, with particular emphasis on foreign manufacturing

programs for duty- and quota-advantaged food products.

Responsibilities involved a substantial regulatory practice in

Washington, Ottawa and Mexico City before trade, customs,

agriculture and foreign-trade zone administrations. Major

transactions included:

- Lead counsel for sale of Total Foods’ assets to Streamline

Foods, Inc. (2002), and for the sale of Arbor Foods and

Arbor Dominion to Total Foods (1986);

- Lead counsel for lease renegotiation and bond financing in

connection with renovation of Arbor Foods’ Ohio facilities;

- Lead counsel for purchase (1995) and sale (1998) of

Pleasure Island Water Park, Muskegon, Michigan; for

purchase (1992) and sale (2000) of Northside Foods’

Canadian peanut butter operations; for acquisition of

Frankenmuth Brewery, Inc., and Old Detroit Brewing

Company (1994); and for purchase of major food processing

facilities in Windsor, Ontario (1990);

- Lead counsel for negotiation and lobbying effort in 1994 and

1995 in connection with the development and allocation of

Canadian export quota licenses of peanut butter and sugar-

containing products; company’s share was approximately

one-third of relevant U.S. market;

- Management of major eight-figure insurance claims in 1994

and 1996, and the subsequent reconstruction contracts;

- Negotiated and drafted numerous commercial transactions

including domestic and foreign commodity supply and sale

contracts, engineering, procurement and construction

contracts, equipment leases, bank and financing documents,

asset and stock purchase and sale agreements

- Establishment of foreign-trade zone operations and

negotiation of “grandfathered” foreign-trade zone operating

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authority.

1978-1982: Law Offices of S. G. Archibald

Associate Paris, France & Brussels,

Belgium

Practice included corporate matters, ICC arbitration of construction

contracts, European Union competition matters, acquisitions, bank

and finance.

EDUCATION

L.L.M., 1979 Free University of Brussels, Brussels,

Belgium

Masters in International and Comparative Law, Program on

International Legal Cooperation.

J.D., 1978 University of Michigan Law School,

Ann Arbor,

Michigan

B.A., 1975 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,

Michigan

Majored in Mathematics and History, College of Literature,

Science and the Arts.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

District of Columbia Bar.

Michigan Bar Association.

LANGUAGES

Fluent English and French, can read Spanish.

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