Shoshone Silver Announces Appointment of New Board Member
Beijing, China/Wallace, Idaho -November 24, 2008 -- Shoshone Silver Mining Company in Wallace, Idaho, USA, has appointed attorney Edward E. Lehman as a member of Shoshone's Board of Directors.
Edward Lehman is the Managing Director of Lehman, Lee & Xu Law Firm (www.lehmanlaw.com), one of the top 3 commercial law firms in China, with offices throughout mainland China, and branches in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mongolia. Based in Beijing, Mr. Lehman specializes in the legal aspects of doing business in China. He advises foreign companies on joint ventures, wholly owned subsidiaries and holding companies, technology, licensing, engineering and construction projects, and the financing of such projects, as well as the protection of intellectual property rights in transactions and projects in China, and on mining law. In practice for over 20 years, Edward has advised on a wide variety of China projects ranging from cars to pharmaceuticals to power plants to websites to the development of mining projects.
In China since 1989, Edward Lehman is one of the best known "China-hands" after 16 years in Beijing and Shanghai. Ed has been voted by "Asian Legal Business Magazine" as one of the top 30 most famous lawyers in China.
Shoshone
President, Lex Smith stated, "Ed Lehman is an invaluable addition to
Shoshone's Board of Directors and to the Company. I have known Ed as a business associate since 1994. He brings to Shoshone's Board a wealth
of legal and business experience in addition to an international savvy that few
people can match. Given the ever
greater role China is playing now, and will be playing in the world of
international mining in the future,
Ed's guidance and leadership will ensure Shoshone's continued successful
competition in that arena..
Further, EdŐs
legal expertise and extensive knowledge of U.S. Federal corporate compliance
laws and Sarbanes Oxley regulations will help guide ShoshoneŐs Board at a time
when all public companies are under ever increasing government scrutiny. Given all the financial and legal
pressures corporations are under at this time, EdŐs legal advice will be of
immeasurable value to Shoshone.Ó
About Shoshone
Silver Mining
Founded in 1969 as a silver exploration, development and production company, Shoshone maintains a diverse portfolio of silver and gold exploration projects in northern Idaho and across the western United States and Mexico. Shoshone stock trades on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB) under the symbol "SHSH".