Hello. I am Jeremy A. Gibson and the principal blogger for this blog. I am excited to start this blog because it presents a great chance to blend several of my greatest interests: journalism, business and law.
Some time ago, I set off to Indiana University thinking I would one day own an eclectic radio station with the motto: "WJAG...Playing the Music I want to Hear." Then, somehow I got involved deeply as a reporter and editorial writer in the campus newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, and found myself a dedicated journalism major. I ended up spending time at the Washington D.C. bureau of Scripps Howard Newspapers, the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Bloomington Herald-Times.
While working as a reporter, I found myself drawn to doing business, financial and economic stories. Though I enjoyed the journalism experience immensely, I started to realize I was more interested in doing what my subjects were doing and less interested in just writing about it. In short, I wanted to get out of the press box and get down to the field of play.
To do that in a fashion, I attended the University of Michigan Law School and after graduation moved to Chicago. Since then I have practiced business law, developing broad and deep expertise, first with several world-class organizations and then through my own Chicago business law firm, Jeremy A. Gibson & Associates, P.C.
I have a general corporate and commercial practice, with significant transactional, intellectual property, technology, regulatory and risk management concentrations. I have worked on negotiating complex deals with large international corporations, starting small businesses and everything in between. For example, I routinely help clients with their key challenges, such as mergers & acquisitions, financings, licensing, leasing, employee issues and disputes.
I started at Chapman and Cutler, where I co-founded a practice group focused on the development and financing of alternative energy projects, after several years of securities, finance, commercial, employment and environmental litigation. Then, at Masuda Funai, the leading law firm for U.S. ventures and subsidiaries of major Japanese companies, I continued a business law practice and helped organize the intellectual property & technology practice group. Most recently, I was a senior attorney at BearingPoint, Inc., the $3.5 billion global technology and consulting spinoff of KPMG, until helping complete the sale of its businesses. There I oversaw a variety of corporate, intellectual property, software, contracting, outsourcing and other matters.
Now, I look forward to bringing together the sensibilities of an experienced journalist and business lawyer in this blog.
