EDUCATION
Undergraduate:
Binghamton University, BA 1980
Summa cum laude – GPA – 3.74
Law:
Brooklyn Law School, JD, 1983 (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976-1978)
Moot Court Honor Society, American Jurisprudence Awards – Securities Law, Evidence, Securities Law Moot Court Team, Graduated Top 30%
Business:
Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, MBA (2008)
Postgraduate:
Certificate, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, “Law of Information Technology”, 2003 (honors); Diploma, College of Law of England and Wales, “International Business Organisations”, 2003, “International Mergers and Acquisitions”, 2004
PROFESSORSHIP:
Adjunct Professor, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 2002 – 2008. Areas of teaching - international business law, entrepreneurship.
PUBLICATIONS:
Managing Editor, The Legal InfoSociety News Kiosk, Luxembourg, 2002 – present
Articles: “Letters of Intent – To Sign or Not” (9/23/2002); “Those Nasty Little Non-Disclosure Agreements” (10/7/2002); “Intellectual Property – Intangible Yet Very Real” (11/4/2002); “Don’t Forget Due Diligence” (12/23/2002); “You’re Starting a New Business – Now What?” (5/5/2003); “What to Know About Starting a New Business” (6/2/2003) – all in the Hudson Valley Business Journal
“The VARIG- TAM Merger – an Ending or a Beginning?”, News Bulletin of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, July/August, 2003;“Joint Ventures with Nonprofits”, International Business Law Bulletin, November/December 2003
OTHER HONORS:
Mentor, International Bar Association Law Firm Mentor Programme 2009-Present, Judge, National Business Plan Competition for Non-Profit Entities, 2003-2005 (under the aegis of the Yale School of Management and the Goldman Sachs Foundation); Judge, Lee Kuan Yew International Business Plan Competition, 2004 - 2006 (under aegis of Singapore Management University and the Wharton School), Contributor to "Doing Business", published by the World Bank, 2010 - present
MEDIA APPEARANCES:
The New York Times, January 11, 2004
Israel Defense Forces Radio, May 1993 (in Hebrew)
The McCreary Report, WYNY-TV, NYC 1996
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Copland House – General Counsel, Treasurer, Trustee 1999-2005
North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry
General Counsel and Trustee 1993-2007
President 1993-1996
MEMBERSHIPS
International Bar Association (Member, Section on Business Law), Center for International Legal Studies (Austria)(Member, College of Fellows) Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce
LANGUAGES
English, Portuguese, Hebrew, French
BAR ADMISSIONS
New York, 1984
Federal Courts, S.D.N.Y and E.D.N.Y, 2001
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