F. Frederic Fouad, Of Counsel, Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC

J.D.
1990, New York University

B.A.
1985, University of Pennsylvania

F. Frederic (Ric) Fouad’s law practice spans over 30 years with a focus on Japan-related litigation and transactions. He is Chair of the Japan Practice Group at Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC. Ric began his career at Jones Day (New York) and has appeared in California, Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington courts at trial and appellate levels. Ric also served in-house at Taisei Corporation (Tokyo), Lexington Corporation (Tokyo and Memphis), and Spartus Capital Management (New York). Ric has been an adjunct professor at Temple Law Tokyo since 2008, was a 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, and is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School (New York), alternating between New York and Tokyo. Ric serves on the advisory boards of the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College and the International Honors Program of World Learning, in Brattleboro, VT. He also serves on the board of Protect The Hersheys’ Children, Inc. Ric’s pro bono work includes refugee property rights restoration in post-war Sarajevo and an over 20-year effort to secure governance reforms of the $17 billion Hershey Trust.

Select Writing/Lectures:

• “Charity and Children Suffer as Hershey’s Board Fends Off Lucrative Merger Bid,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 19, 2016
• “Hershey’s Charity for Children Became GOP Slush Fund,” Nation Magazine, October 17, 2012 (with Matt Stroud)
• “Making Bitter Chocolate Sweet: The Milton Hershey School’s Past and Hoped For Future,” Lecture, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, October 31, 2013