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Duane Morris Adds Pair of Attorneys on West Coast

rebneely — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:49 +0000

Duane Morris announced recently David A. Charapp has joined the firm as a partner in its San Diego office, in its Corporate Practice Group. In addition, the firm is also pleased to welcome Jarrett Fugh as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Fugh joins the Real Estate Practice Group.

The addition of Charapp reflects the firm’s growing corporate practice group on the West Coast and nationally, especially in the areas of life sciences and technology. He joins Duane Morris from Foley & Lardner LLP. There, he served as chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Collaborations & Licensing Practice.

Charapp assists life sciences and technology companies with their critical partnering, licensing and financing transactions, as well as significant operational agreements such as those for manufacturing and supply, distribution, and pre-clinical and clinical research. Charapp has significant experience as an in-house attorney, having been associate general counsel at Kosan Biosciences, a biotechnology company acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb, and associate general counsel at Santarus, a specialty biopharmaceutical company.

Charapp earned his J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from Boston College Law School.

Duane Morris’ Life Sciences and Biotechnology Group offers clients a wide range of legal services, including intellectual property counsel, securities counsel in connection with private and public equity funding, international trade and tax advice, labor and employment guidance, dispute resolution and litigation service. These are all provided within the framework of their business to address each client’s specific needs.

The addition of Jarrett Fugh reflects the firm’s growing Real Estate Practice Group on the West Coast and nationally. He joins Duane Morris from Winston & Strawn.

Fugh concentrates his practice on real estate and corporate matters, representing clients in the acquisition, financing, development and leasing of real property, with an emphasis on hospitality and resorts. He helps clients in the origination and restructuring of syndicated, mezzanine and securitized loans, as well as in the construction financing of major commercial, residential and hospitality properties. In addition, Fugh advises clients on the formation and structuring of joint ventures for both developers and institutional investors in real estate projects. He also counsels clients on a range of general corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions and financings.

Local and national media have interviewed Fugh with regard to economic trends in the real estate market, particularly those concerning Asian investment in the U.S. real estate markets.

Fugh earned his J.D., cum laude from The George Washington University Law School, where he was a staff member of The George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics.

Duane Morris LLP is a full-service law firm with over 700 attorneys in 24 offices across the United States and around the world. Founded in 1904, the firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2011, the Am Law 100 ranked Duane Morris as the 67th largest law firm in the U.S. based on gross revenue.

Obama Nominates 4 for US Attorney

Erik Even — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:55:05 +0000

On Friday, President Obama nominated four lawyers as United States Attorneys.

Daniel Bogden was nominated for the District of Nevada. He is a partner at McDonald Carano Wilson. He was previously US Attorney for the District of Nevada; Reno Division Chief in the US Attorney’s Office; and an Assistant US Attorney and member of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. His JD is from the University of Toledo College of Law.

University of Toledo College of Law was nominated for the District of Nebraska. She is president of Gilg Kruger & Troia in Omaha. She is also the Saunders County, Nebraska Attorney. Her JD is from the University of Nebraska College of Law.

Timothy J. Heaphy was nominated for the Western District of Virginia. He is a partner at McGuireWoods, and was an Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia, and a Deputy Managing Assistant US Attorney for the Western District of Virginia. His JD is from the University of Virginia Law School.

Peter F. Neronha was nominated for the District of Rhode Island. He is an Assistant US Attorney, and served in the Rhode Island Department of the Attorney General as Special Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General. Neronha graduated from the Boston College Law School.

Morgan Lewis Brings on Team from Bingham McCutchen

Erik Even — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:45:30 +0000

Morgan Lewis has brought on five partners and six associates from Bingham McCutchen’s banking & leveraged finance group, including a former co-chair of the practice.

All 11 will join Morgan Lewis’ Boston-based Business and Finance Practice, which spans the United States, Europe, and Asia, with nearly 400 transactional lawyers who focus on a wide variety of areas, including finance, bankruptcy and restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets.

Robert A. J. Barry joins as partner; he focuses his practice on the structuring and restructuring of domestic and international financing transactions. He received his JD from Villanova University School of Law in 1987.

Partner Jonathan K. Bernstein’s practice focuses on general corporate finance, including debt financing, structured financing, workouts, and bankruptcies across numerous industries, including energy, transportation, media, sports and numerous national and regional restaurant chains. He received his JD, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1987.

Sula R. Fiszman joins as partner; she represents financial institutions, private equity funds, and other companies in complex senior secured finance transactions, subordinated and second lien lending transactions, structured finance, workouts, and bankruptcies. She received her JD cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984 and her MA from the University of Chicago in 1981.

Patner Matthew F. Furlon represents leading financial institutions and borrowers in a broad range of finance and business matters, including domestic and international debt, mezzanine and equity financing, debt restructurings, asset-based credit facilities, second lien credit facilities, acquisition finance and retail finance, and multinational credit facilities. He got his JD magna cum laude from Boston College Law School in 1994.

Sandra J. Vrejan joins as partner; she focuses her practice on a broad range of domestic and international commercial finance, secured transactions, and financial restructurings. She received her JD from Hofstra University School of Law in 1995.

Philadelphia-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is a law firm that was founded as Morgan & Lewis in 1873. It has 1,400 lawyers in 22 offices worldwide.

BC Law Offers Aid to Deferred and Unemployed Grads

Erik Even — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:44:36 +0000

The Boston College Law School has joined other prominent law schools in offering assistance to graduates who have been deferred at law firms, or who have not received offers.

According to Eagleionline, the assistance includes:

Law School Fellows Program: “as many as twelve positions” will be available, paid at “a modest hourly rate” in places like the Legal Assistance Bureau and the Law Library.

Career Services Partnership Program: working with some firms and companies, the Law School will coordinate jobs for graduates from September 1 of this year to March 1 of the next, to help out those who are waiting out deferrals or bar exam results. While stipends vary, past participants have “averaged $800 to $1000 per week.”

Audit Courses: Class of 2009 graduates will be able to enroll in “a number of courses” in the fall semester, without tuition but without the opportunity to receive a grade…

Eagle Scholars Program: while auditing courses, graduates can participate in a weekly seminar intended to help students produce “a law review article of publishable quality.”

Research Assistantships: in a measure bound to raise the ire of some continuing students, graduates are being welcomed to apply for assistantships with professors. Some faculty members have been given the green light to hire an extra assistant for the summer and fall.

Public Service Jobs: for graduates waiting out deferrals, the Law School is extending access to PS Lawnet in an effort to connect graduates with public service opportunities.

Boston College Law School is situated on a 40-acre wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts. With approximately 800 students and 125 faculty members, the Law School is the largest of Boston College’s seven graduate and professional schools.

Admission to BC Law is among the most selective in the United States, with approximately 7,000 applicants for the 275 places in the first year class in 2005.