About the Author

• Author: Robert J. Spjut
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About the Author

R. J. Spjut joined Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in 1988. During

his nearly thirty years of practice there, he concentrated on commercial,

international, and project finance transactions. He advised on a number

of significant infrastructure projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe,

and North and South America and in the energy, telecommunications,

and other industries. He was a partner in the firm’s San Francisco and

Hong Kong oces. He retired at the end of 2017.

Spjut served as cochair of the Uniform Commercial Code

Subcommittee of the California State Bar’s Business Law Section. He

authored numerous articles published in scholarly legal and other

journals, trade publications, and books. He also coauthored a guide to

secured transactions in California under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform

Commercial Code.

Before joining Pillsbury, he taught law at The Queen’s University

of Belfast, University of Khartoum, University of Kent at Canterbury,

University of San Diego School of Law, and St. Thomas University, School

of Law.

He received a JD from University of San Francisco School of Law

in 1971 and an LLM from London School of Economics and Political

Science in 1972. He is admitted to practice in California and Florida.

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