Mr. Kaplan has decades of experience as counsel to foreign and domestic corporations making strategic acquisitions and engaging in making key business decisions. Mr. Kaplan was previously a Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP and a Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.

Mr. Kaplan served in the U.S. Navy as an officer in both the Korean and the 1st Vietnam conflict. He was a Board member of Barton’s Candy Corporation and was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Perry H Kopik & Sons Inc., an international forest products brokerage firm.