Experience
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Provide legal advice to university investment offices concerning their investments in various vehicles.
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Represent a consortium of New York-based academic and medical institutions in matters including entity formation, governance and other corporate, tax, licensing, employment and regulatory matters.
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Represented the Mexican National Institute for Astronomy, Optics and Electronics in a cross-border joint venture with the University of Massachusetts to construct a state-of-the-art large millimeter radio telescope observatory in Puebla, Mexico.
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Advised on the formation and structuring of The SNP Consortium, a public-private consortium in which The Wellcome Trust, leading global pharmaceutical and IT companies, and several major research universities in the United States and Britain collaborated to develop a publicly released map of the human genome based on the discovery and classification of single-nucleotide polymorphisms.
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Represented major for-profit and nonprofit organizations in acquiring education-oriented companies, such as Educational Testing Service’s acquisitions of Assessment Training Institute and Prometric.
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Represented some of the largest research universities in the country in customizing technology transfer agreements with private enterprises to their needs and particular technology requirements.