Edward Mears is a California-licensed attorney sitting as a member of DLA Piper's corporate team in the firm's Tokyo office where he advises multinationals on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and other commercial agreements. Before attending law school and joining DLA Piper, Edward worked in New York as the head of business development for the sports business division of Japan's largest advertising agency where his work focused on the management of broadcast rights agreements for premiere international sporting events. During law school, Edward spent a summer in the natural resources department of one of Chile's largest law firms in Santiago, where he helped resolve regulatory issues on