Ken August is the founder and manager of August Law Group, P.C., a transactional law firm specializing in domestic and international corporate and financial transactions, securities and private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer, licensing, and strategic alliances.

He began his legal career in Washington, D.C., as part of the legal team representing former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon's investment banking firm, Wesray Corporation, in a variety of public and private financial transactions, management buy-outs, and related corporate activity.

Prior to establishing his own firm, Mr. August worked at Graham & James in Los Angeles, CA, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, franchise and securities, and joint venture transactions for the firm's international clientele.

During his career, Mr. August has participated as legal counsel in transactions having an aggregate value of more than $2.5 billion. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Whittier Law School, teaching in the area of corporations and securities law, and at the University of California at Irvine Graduate School of Management, where he taught general legal issues impacting business professionals.

He has lectured extensively in the areas of international business and financial transactional law, including for the Harvard Business School Association of Orange County in 2006. He was also a contributing author on international mergers and acquisitions in the book The Art of M&A, published by Dow Jones-Irwin in 1987.

Mr. August was a Founding Member of the College of Fellows of the Centre for International Legal Studies, Kitzbühel, Austria. He has also served as a Director for the Singapore American Business Association (Southern California) and as a Director and President of the Orange County International Business and Protocol Foundation.