Gregory Thiess Email & Phone Number

Michigan, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Hear and decide Small Claims Cases for the 86th District Court. Also conducted Landlord/Tenant Pretrials.

Peru, Illinois, US

• Manage all legal, regulatory, environmental, employment, compliance, governance and commercial transactions for Carus Group Inc., a group of chemical products manufacturers with $150 million of sales, and CL.
• Member of Carus Group Executive Committee, working directly with ownership and senior executive, finance, sales, manufacturing, HR, product development, purchasing, safety, M&A, IP and IT leaders. Secretary and legal.
• Established new form agreements, including NDAs, sales, purchase and services contracts, corporate governance documents, litigation forms, M&A documents, and labor and employment forms, assuring acceptable terms and.
• Established IP management and review process and contract management facility.
• Successfully directed Carus products litigation, Anti-Dumping Duty and Superfund regulatory proceedings, and created policies for records management, compliance and related issues.
• Achieved reduction of approximately $500K of savings in annual legal expenses.

Farmington Hills, MI, US

• Responsible for all legal activities of five affiliate companies including corporate governance, regulatory compliance, contracts, negotiating major transactions, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and claims, and.
• General Counsel & Secretary of Robert Bosch Tool Corp. and 4 other Bosch companies, responsible for all legal affairs that grew revenues from $250 million to $1.25 billion.
• Personally manage and negotiate company sales, purchase and services contracts of more than $1.25 billion annually.
• Directed acquisition of L.R. Nelson Corp., NA legal work to acquire Freud America/Freud Canada, and sales of three business units.
• Lead counsel for construction of five new headquarters, manufacturing and distribution facilities in U.S., Canada and Mexico.
• Managed all commercial and product liability litigation, including more than 125 defense verdicts/dismissals, while reducing expenses more than $250,000 (20%) annually.

• Managed five lawyer section of Legal Department providing business, contract, antitrust and regulatory law services, and six lawyer section directing company litigation, claims and labor.
• Managed successful defense of silicone implant mass tort litigation (over 25,000 product liability cases, class actions, multidistrict cases and appeals).
• Personally defended company in labor and employment cases, reducing outside costs $50,000 (25%) annually.
• Implemented contract review/tracking systems and procedures for contract negotiation, expanding legal services while reducing costs over $100,000 (10%).
• Managed SEC compliance issues arising from mass tort litigation.
• Business counsel and Secretary to DCC international companies in North, South America.

J.D., Law

B.A., Political Science