Lee M Sands Email and Phone Number

Mr. Sands created his own cross-border transaction and advisory firm Sierra Asia Partners. In the process, Mr. Sands has represented more than 50 US companies

Quadrnt is a merchant bank, offering advisory services and consulting, serving the mid cap and small cap markets.

Mr. Sands joined Mayer Brown as a partner with former US Trade Representative and Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor, and became Chairman of MBP Consulting, the consulting arm of Mayer Brown in Beijing and Shanghai. He represented primarily major US corporations on market access, intellectual property rights and related issues in China, Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. During that period, he achieved a series of “firsts” for multinational corporations, including establishment of the first foreign-invested sound recording company for Sony Music, the first foreign television station for Time Warner, the first Broadway production and performance joint ventures for the Nederlanders in New York.In addition, Mr. Sands created joint ventures, negotiated deals, and advised senior executives of such US corporations as Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Avery Dennison, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Gateway Computers, Kodak, and The Boeing Company. In China, Mr. Sands also represented the Huawei Technologies, the Beijing New Oriental School, and other Chinese companies seeking access to the US market or resolving problems for them.

Mr. Sands served as Assistant US Trade Representative for Japan and China, for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, in the Executive Office of the President. Through two Administrations, President Bush and President Clinton, Mr. Sands served three USTRs, Ambassadors Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor and Charlene Barshefsky. During that period, Mr. Sands served as the chief US trade negotiator for issues ranging from intellectual property rights, market access, trade enforcement negotiations, and China’s accession to the WTO. In Washington, he was responsible for coordinating and developing US trade policy toward Asia for the USTR, managing an interagency team, handling congressional issues related to trade policy with China and Japan, and advising the US Trade Representative and other senior US policymakers on trade policy toward China, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Mr. Sands won an award for Excellence in Negotiating at USTR in 1996 for negotiating achievements with China on IPR and market access issues.

In the 1980s, among other assignments, Mr. Sands served in the US Embassy in Beijing from 1986-1988, as a second secretary in the Economic Section. He won the State Department’s award for reporting excellence in 1988 for his reporting on Chinese domestic economic and political developments.