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John A. Knab

Of Counsel - Washington, D.C.

jknab@gsblaw.com

202.298.2536 Tel

202.965.1729 Fax

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John Knab advises clients in a wide range of commercial matters including business organization law (corporations and limited liability companies); government contracting; licensing and other contracts; mergers; acquisitions; equity and debt financings; and other business transactions. He serves as general outside counsel to business organizations and their owners, advising on a range of legal issues, controversies, and opportunities. His clients work in numerous industries.

Many of his clients are small and emerging companies that are based in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and provide goods and services for U.S. government procurement. He advises on government contracts and subcontracts, teaming agreements and joint ventures on organizational and financing issues, and on the structure and negotiations of mergers and acquisitions. He has advised clients in numerous transactions, helping them achieve excellent results when they sell their companies.

Mr. Knab represents broadcast and communications tower companies in the negotiation and closing of business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business restructurings. In the past years, he assisted in a $100-million divesture and sale of a family-owned radio broadcast company.

He also represents many clients in international transactions, either foreign entities doing business in the U.S. or U.S. companies doing business in foreign countries. He has represented Russian, Chinese, and Indian clients in the U.S. From 1993 to 1996, he served as senior American attorney for the Moscow office on an international law firm.

Mr. Knab represents a growing number of musicians, and producers, music distributors, as well as several authors.