Alexander Calhoun’s practice encompasses nearly all aspects of the firm’s practice around the Pacific Rim, with a particular emphasis on bank and corporate mergers and acquisitions, cross-border venture capital startup investments, and the negotiation of joint venture and technology exchange agreements in the United States, Japan and the People’s Republic of China. In addition, Sandy advises on transnational asset tax planning.

Sandy is author of a number of publications including the Bureau of National Affairs Tax Management Portfolio concerning business operations in Japan and law review articles concerning business operations in Korea, eurodollar lending and software licensing.

Recently, Sandy has been involved in structuring constitutional convention and election-related arrangements in Afghanistan. He provides general corporate counsel to a nonprofit organization working to advance the mutual interests of the United States and the Asia Pacific region. This organization contracted with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Afghan constitutional secretariat to support the process for Afghanistan’s Constitutional Loya Jirga (grand council), which adopted Afghanistan’s first constitution and is supporting the election process under that constitution.

In 2006 Sandy received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Japan Society of Northern California (JSNC) for his critical contribution to the postwar revival of the JSNC and work in Japan as part of a 50-year legal career. In 2008 he received the New Silk Road Award from the California-Asia Business Council in recognition of his role in globalizing legal services to increase the ease of doing business across the Pacific.

Sandy is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, the New York State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar and the American Society of International Law. He has been a lecturer on international business transactions at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, an adjunct professor of banking law and financial services industry regulation at the University of San Francisco School of Law and a visiting lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade.

Sandy is a trustee of The Asia Foundation, chair of Give2Asia, chair emeritus of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Committee, a director emeritus of the Japan Society of Northern California and a commissioner of the Asian Art Commission, San Francisco.