Al Givray joined DGS in 2008 and specializes in the following areas:

Prior to joining DGS he was a partner with Jacobs Chase Frick Kleinkopf & Kelley. He was also formerly a partner at Stuart Biolchini Turner & Givray, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he managed the US and cross-border transactional work for the firm’s clients in aviation, commercial finance, technology ventures, business-to-business media, electric power projects, gas gathering systems, oil & gas assets, consumer electronics, manufacturing,and product distribution. Al has been listed for several years in The Best Lawyers in America.

Speaking Topics

• Literary Contribution to J. White & R. Summers, Uniform Commercial Code (West 2d & 3d eds. 1980 & 1988) (Letters of Credit, chapter 19 and Appendix B; Multistate Perfection, chapter 24)
• Co-Author, Special Project - The Priority Rules of Article Nine, 62 Cornell Law Review 834, 939-87 (1977)
• Letters of Credit, 47 Business Lawyer 1571 (1992)
• Letters of Credit, 46 Business Lawyer 1579 (1991)
• Letters of Credit, 45 Business Lawyer 2381 (1990)
• Letters of Credit, 44 Business Lawyer 1567 (1989)
• Columnist, Don’t Repeat the Mistakes of Others, Letters of Credit Report (bi monthly; Wiley Law Publications) (1991 to 1996)
• Frequent lecturer on Aviation, Intellectual Property, and Uniform Commercial Code topics

Affiliations

• Oklahoma Bar Association
• Chair, Financial Institutions and Commercial Law Section
• Chair, Legislative Review Committee on new UCC Article 5 (Letters of Credit)
• Co-Chair Legislative Review Committee on new UCC Article 9 (Secured Transactions)
• Co-Chair Legislative Review Committee on proposed Uniform Computer Information
• Transactions Act (UCITA)

Judicial Clerkships

• U. S. Tenth Circuit Judge Stephanie K. Seymour, Tulsa, OK, 1980 - 1981
  
• Sr. U. S. District Judge Edmund Port, NDNY, Auburn, NY, 1978 - 1980

Noted Work

Recently, Mr. Givray has represented:

• The purchaser in the acquisition of an EU-based airline conducting cargo operations and unscheduled passenger flights. The transaction involved unusually complex legal, tax, investment, financial, operational, regulatory, litigation, and due-diligence issues across 9 countries in 4 continents.
• Invidi Technologies Corporation in numerous technology transfer transactions and its intellectual property protection program. Invidi is a leading provider of targeted advertising software systems for the cable and satellite television industry and its investors include Menlo Ventures, InterWest Partners, EnerTech Capital and Westbury Partners.
• The NORDAM Group in various technology transfers, joint ventures and alliances, including cross border transactions to develop, certify, manufacture, market, sell and distribute new aircraft products and technology-based solutions. The NORDAM Group is a leader in the manufacture, repair and overhaul of aircraft components, with facilities on three continents serving more than 150 commercial carriers and OEMs for commercial, regional, corporate and general aircraft.
• TRICON Geophysics, Inc. in various strategic alliances to develop software and other intellectual property, and in the associated patenting and licensing activities. TRICON is a leader in seismic processing services for the oil and gas industry and has offices in the United States, Canada, Venezuela and Colombia.