Alcoholic Beverage Law His has spanned over 30 years in trial, regulatory, and transactional matters, including interstate and international trade. He has been the key legal officer in multiple start/ups and mergers/acquisitions of brewery’s, wineries, distilleries and retail hospitality entities, always mindful of the restrictions created by the 3 tier system. He prides himself on his innate ability to structure both new and existing companies and to strategically determine the right fit for acquisitions and the right time for spinoffs. A major portion of his practice is devoted to sales, marketing, and trade practice requirements proffered by the federal and individual state governments. He actively teaches professionals & students at regional wine forums, local colleges & major wine universities in France & California. He currently serves as the American Bar Association as a Committee Chair of the GPS International Committee, the GPS Agricultural Committee, and the Assistant Chair of the Business Law and Litigation Committee, Subcommittee on Alcohol and Cannabis.

Roy R. Brandys joined Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo, PLLC in 2008. He exclusively represents landowners in eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and related land use matters. He has represented landowners in hundreds of cases related to road, highway, power line and pipeline projects. He has worked on well-known cases such as the US-Mexico border wall project, and his practice serves all of Texas including Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and west Texas. Prior to joining Barron, Adler, Clough & Oddo, Mr. Brandys was a civil trial lawyer and tried more than 50 civil cases to jury verdict in Texas, Illinois, and New Mexico. He has extensive appellate experience in state and federal appellate courts. Before representing clients in eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and related land use matters, he represented clients before administrative bodies including the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Merit Systems Protection Board. Mr. Brandys earned his B.A. from Knox College in 1980 and his J.D. from Wake Forest University in 1985. While at Wake Forest University, he was a member of the Law Review.

John Brantley has experience advising United States and international companies on the risks and benefits of expansion and operation out-bound from, and in-bound to, the U.S. He has knowledge of the cultural and practical side of international operations acquired through personal experience on the ground in Central Asia, China, the Middle East, South America and the United Kingdom. Additionally, John has advised international companies (including state owned enterprises), private equity firms and strategic buyers and sellers on the intricacies of investing in the securities of U.S. public and private companies in traditional and auction transactions. This experience, coupled with his market knowledge, enables him to identify the factors critical to the success of a transaction at an early stage so that strategies may be developed to improve outcomes. His securities experience includes private and public offerings in the U.S. and internationally of debt and equity securities for state-owned and private enterprises, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings for listing in the U.S. and London. John’s evaluation of disclosure issues is based on knowledge of the unique disclosure issues applicable in the oil and gas, chemical and banking industries acquired through years of practice. He advises boards of directors and committees on disclosure and corporate governance issues, issues regarding board structure and composition, executive compensation, director independence and fiduciary duties in a variety of contexts. His knowledge enables him to provide perspective to clients in successfully resolving governance disputes among management, the board of directors and the stockholders.

Joshua Bratter earned his B.A. from Hamilton College, where he founded the College’s first Policy Think Tank on hemispheric issues, H.O.L.A. His senior thesis was published in the literary journal, The Minerva Review. He received his JD from the University of Miami, where he was one of the founding members of the University’s Asylum Clinic, supervised under the auspices of The National Lawyers Guild and The Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. As a Research Assistant to the Honorable Hugo Caminos, Mr. Bratter was awarded a post-graduate research grant to attend The Hague Academy of International Law, in the Hague, Netherlands. Mr. Bratter has worked as a Research Analyst at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington DC and a Law Clerk for the Under Secretary of Legal Affairs at the Organization of American States, Washington DC. Mr. Bratter has spoken on panels and at conferences with Congressmen, Demographers, Religious and Community Leaders, Sports and Entertainment Agents, Immigration Officials and Members of the Immigration bar on the subject of Immigration Law, specifically Extraordinary Ability Aliens, for events sponsored by the American Bar Association, the American Immigrant Lawyers Association, International Trade Organizations and Universities in the US and abroad.