Who’s Who in Romania: Bryan Wilson Jardine
Mr. Bryan Wilson Jardine is an American lawyer who has lived and worked in Romania since 1996. He has been the Managing Partner of the Bucharest office of the leading regional law firm Wolf Theiss since 2005, and has also invested in…
Mr. Bryan Wilson Jardine is an American lawyer who has lived and worked in Romania since 1996. He has been the Managing Partner of the Bucharest office of the leading regional law firm Wolf Theiss since 2005, and has also invested in tourism, by opening the Jardine Hills compound in the wine region of Dealu Mare.
Name: Bryan Wilson Jardine
Nationality: American
Current industry: Law
Current employer: Wolf Theiss
Current position: Managing Partner
Past brands/companies: Fulbright & Jaworski (1990 – 1994), Arent Fox (1996 – 2002), Squire Sanders & Dempsey (2002 – 2005)
Education: University of California (JUDr), 1990; Georgetown University (Science in Foreign Service, BA, Magna cum Laude), 1984; Admitted to the Bucharest Bar (2006); Admitted to the California State Bar Association (1990).
Years active professionally: Bryan Wilson Jardine has been the Managing Partner of the Bucharest office of the leading regional law firm Wolf Theiss since 2005. A California-admitted (since 1990) and registered foreign lawyer with the Bucharest Bar Association, Bryan has lived and worked in Romania since 1996.
Professional accomplishments:
After graduating Georgetown University with a Bachelors degree in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree in 1984, Bryan worked for a number of years in the Washington, D.C. area. He started law school in 1987 at UCLA and graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1990 with a Juris Doctorate degree in law. For his first six years as a licensed attorney, he worked as a litigation attorney trying cases in southern California. In August, 1996, he had the opportunity to work in Romania as a representative of the American Bar Association (ABA) in a project intended to introduce best practices and model laws to the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe. He spent 1 year working for the ABA, until 1997 at which time he returned to his litigation practice in Los Angeles. However, given his experience working in Romania with the ABA, he was recruited by the Washington DC based law firm of Arent Fox to set up their Bucharest office in August 1998, as an expansion of their existing presence in the region with an office in Budapest, Hungary. In 2000, Arent Fox's Budapest office was acquired by the Cleveland-based law firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey and thereafter, at the beginning of 2002, Mr. Jardine helped to establish and oversee Squire Sanders' relationship with its affiliated office in Romania. Finally, in 2005 he was recruited by the Vienna-based law firm of Wolf Theiss to help establish and manage their office in Bucharest.
