Dan Scheinman, ‘87
Investor, Board Member, Advisor
Today, Dan Scheinman is an investor, board member and advisor for emerging technology companies in communications, media, green tech and elsewhere. Scheinman was an early investor in Tango.me, the leading mobile video calling company and is an advisor to the CEO. In addition, Scheinman has been a board member for Auryn, a leading animation platform company. Scheinman was also an investor in Reveal Imaging, recently acquired by SAIC. Scheinman has other Board affiliations to be announced shortly.
Previously, Scheinman had a diverse 18 year career at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he was an entrepreneur, strategist and leader. Most recently, Scheinman was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group (CMSG), an internal start up which successfully developed and marketed a hosted software solution to help media owners grow social direct to consumer businesses. Scheinman developed a unique understanding of the relationship between media and technology while building a growing, scaling software platform. Scheinman was also named to the Billboard 100 to follow on twitter.
Prior to that, Scheinman was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, overseeing the merger and acquisitions, venture investment, strategic alliance, and technology incubation functions within Cisco. Taking over in 2001, Scheinman helped rebuild Corporate Development as a growth enabler for Cisco completing more than 40 acquisitions and numerous investments helping to accelerate Cisco’s growth beyone more than switching and routing (including acquiring Aerospace, Linksys and Scientific Atlanta). Under his leadership, Corporate Development also helped define how the network can serve as an innovation platform in emerging markets such as India (where he helped pioneer the engineering and investment efforts) and China (where he helped to positively invest more than $1 Billion of strategic capital). Previously, Scheinman was the general counsel at Cisco. Scheinman holds a political science degree from Brandeis University.
Biographies of ESQ 2012 Panelists
Christian Broadbent, ‘99 graduated from Duke Law School in 1999 with JD and LLM degrees. He worked for two law firms (now called WilmerHale, and Dewey & LeBoeuf), then joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he held several positions. First, he worked in the Division of Investment Management’s Office of Disclosure Regulation, which focuses on registered investment companies. While there, he worked on matters such as proxy voting by mutual funds and investment advisers, the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and market timing/late trading scandals. He then became Counsel to Commissioner Annette L. Nazareth, working primarily on investment management and enforcement issues. Following that, Mr. Broadbent became Senior Special Counsel in the Division of Investment Management’s Special Projects Office, reporting to the Division Director on a diverse portfolio of emerging regulatory issues. He is currently Senior Counsel to Commissioner Elisse B. Walter, and focuses on regulatory reform, investment management, ethics, and enforcement issues. In this position, Mr. Broadbent has been involved with the regulatory response to the economic crisis and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Valerie Broadie, ‘79 has worked for a variety of non-profit organizations as a development professional for nearly 30 years– from the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, the University of Maryland College Park, Howard University and Morgan State University, to health care institutions like Penn Medical Center and Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC). Before joining the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. as Director of Development in February 2009, she served as a Senior Consultant in the Washington, DC office of Campbell & Company, a national fundraising consulting firm based in Chicago. Ms. Broadie established her own fundraising consulting practice, Valerie T. Broadie, Fundraising Counsel in 2005, which she operated for two years before joining Campbell. Throughout her career, Ms. Broadie has created programs that increased the visibility and viability of the institutions she has served.
In addition to her commitments to her professional duties, Val Broadie has served as a board member, speaker and volunteer for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), National Capital Gift Planning Council, Washington Area Women’s Foundation and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Ms. Broadie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University School of Law and is a life member of the Board of Visitors at the Law School.
David B. Chenkin, ’82 is a Partner in the New York office of law firm Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP (ZEK) and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. He is a member of ZEK’s management committee and is the firm’s administrative partner. As a litigator, Chenkin represents major financial institutions and other clients in civil, criminal, regulatory and compliance-related matters. He heads the firm’s anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act compliance practice areas, and represents clients in connection with investigations initiated by Congress and by federal, state and local prosecutors and regulators. In addition, Chenkin handles confidential internal investigations for clients facing potential civil, criminal and regulatory exposure. He frequently speaks on these issues at conferences that are attended by regulators, members of the financial services industry and law enforcement.
Chenkin received his BA in accounting from Queens College..
Jonathan Claiborne, ‘81 is a partner at Whiteford, Taylor & Preston in Baltimore, MD. He has represented litigants in more than 100 bench and jury trials in state and federal courts and was listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America, 2011. He serves on the board of the Duke Law School Alumni Association.
Lea Courington, ‘77 is a partner at Curran, Tomko, Tarski in Dallas, TX. In over 30 years as an active litigator, Courington has handled a wide range of cases, ranging from antitrust, securities fraud, trademark, real estate, employment, business tort, and other types of commercial cases to libel and slander, products liability, toxic tort, and professional malpractice cases. Her experience includes both civil cases and the prosecution and defense of white-collar criminal matters. Many of the cases she has litigated have involved scientific, technical, technological, and medical issues, but she has also represented corporations, partnerships, and officers and directors in a variety of cases arising from complex financial and commercial transactions.
Evan Cramer, ‘04 currently serves as legal counsel to Noble Americas Corp., a member of the Noble Group. Noble Group is a market leader in managing the global supply chain of agricultural, energy, metals and mining resources. The Group operates from over 150 offices and plants in 38 countries and in 2011, Noble ranked #139 on the annual Fortune Global 500. Noble manages a diversified portfolio of essential raw materials, integrating the sourcing, marketing, processing, financing and transportation. On a daily basis, Evan is the principal lawyer supporting the metals, softs, chartering and fuels divisions in North America and South America. Evan began his career with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP as a corporate associate focusing on mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions. Evan graduated cum laude from Duke Law School with a JD and LLM in international and comparative law and high honors from the University of Michigan in 2001.
Paul Dietrich, ’90 is a transactional lawyer with expertise in areas related to real estate and lending. His practice includes the representation of clients in matters related to purchase and sale transactions, business and asset acquisitions, banking and loan collateralization, private equity, land use and development, condominiums and time-sharing. He has substantial experience with business entities at all stages of development, including structuring and formation matters, traditional and non-traditional financing arrangements, employment and other business agreements, and regularly advises clients in connection with corporate governance matters, fiduciary duty issues and transactional matters. Paul has served as a counsel for several banks, and currently serves as a director of Seacoast National Bank’s Advisory Board. He also oversees the firm’s satellite television anti-piracy initiative on behalf of DirecTV.
Paul attended Princeton University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1987. Paul received his law degree from Duke University School of Law in 1990.
Thomas E. Dunn, ‘92 is a partner in Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s Corporate Department based in New York City. His diverse corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, restructurings, corporate governance, and securities-related matters. Dunn’s recent assignments include representing Terra Industries in connection with its $4.7 billion sale to CF Industries; Jones Apparel Group in its acquisition of Stuart Weitzman; Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $2.4 billion acquisition of Medarex; Chemed in its proxy fight with MMI Investments; RHJ International and its portfolio company, Asahi Tec, in connection with the restructuring of Metaldyne Corporation; Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $4.7 billion bid for ImClone; Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $4.1 billion sale of ConvaTec; and Alcoa in the $2.7 billion sale of its packaging and consumer business to Rank Group Limited. Dunn earned a B.A. from the College of William & Mary in 1987 and graduated with high honors from Duke Law School, where he was senior editor of Law and Contemporary Problems and was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Christopher D. Dusseault, ‘94 is Co-Partner in Charge of the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and its Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Media and Entertainment Practice Groups. Mr. Dusseault’s practice focuses on antitrust and competition law litigation and counseling, as well as general complex commercial litigation. Mr. Dusseault also recently served as trial counsel in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a federal constitutional challenge to the California ballot initiative that stripped gay and lesbian individuals of the right to marry.
Mr. Dusseault has significant experience in a wide range of antitrust litigation matters. He has represented clients in the entertainment, aviation, automotive, medical device and pharmaceutical industries in cases involving charges of monopolization, conspiracy and price discrimination. Mr. Dusseault has served as lead counsel and on trial teams before numerous federal and state courts, and he has argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeal. Mr. Dusseault also has provided antitrust counseling and compliance training to some of the world’s largest companies and has spoken and written on various antitrust subjects.
In addition to his antitrust work, Mr. Dusseault also has extensive experience in trial-oriented, complex commercial and constitutional litigation. Mr. Dusseault has litigated matters involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secret misappropriation, patent ownership, fraud and civil rights.
In January 2010, Mr. Dusseault was named one of California’s “Top 20 Under 40” by the legal publication Daily Journal. The Daily Journal cited Mr. Dusseault’s work on the Perry litigation, his successful defense of a major antitrust lawsuit for Tyco Healthcare Group, and his leadership of Gibson Dunn’s Los Angeles offices. In April 2009, Mr. Dusseault was honored by Duke Law School with its “Young Alumni Award,” given to a graduate from the last 15 years for distinguished service to the legal profession and to the school.
David J. Farrell, ’84 is a solo practitioner and admiralty attorney based in Massachusetts. He has been the Membership Secretary of the Maritime Law Association of the United States since 2008 and a member of its Board of Directors since 2006. Farrell received a B.A., cum laude, with Honors in Political Science, from Williams College in 1977. He also received an M.P.A. from Columbia University in 1979 before attending Duke Law School.
Chris Fazekas, ‘04 currently serves as Legal Counsel to the Mubadala Capital and Acquisitions and Investment Management Units of Mubadala Development Company PJSC. Mubadala is a development company based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, wholly owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi, that has over $45 billion in assets under management. Mubadala’s mandate is to play an integral role in diversifying the economy of Abu Dhabi away from its reliance on oil and gas revenues by targeting investments that balance financial and social returns for the Emirate. On a day-to-day basis, Chris advises Mubadala’s investment professionals on acquisitions, divestitures and public trading strategies across nine industry sectors. Prior to joining Mubadala in 2010, Chris was a senior associate at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP where he focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and capital markets work in the New York and Hong Kong offices. Chris graduated magna cum laude from Duke Law School with a JD and LLM in international and comparative law and from the University of Virginia in 2001 with a bachelors in economics.
Ronald W. Frank, ‘72 is a partner in the Pittsburgh office of ReedSmith. He has extensive experience in corporate finance and international transactions and has advised domestic and international clients on the structuring and financing of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatization transactions, the development of distribution networks, and the negotiation of sales agency, distribution, and licensing agreements. In the energy area, he has served as the general partner of oil and gas drilling programs, all of which were successfully funded, completed, and operated. He has served as counsel to the organizers of numerous oil and gas drilling programs throughout the United States, assisting in the structuring of the investing partnerships and the negotiation of the transaction documents. He has represented buyers and sellers of oil and gas interests in equity and cash roll-up transactions. He has also represented a large gas utility in the bidding for gas local distribution companies (LDCs) being privatized in Argentina. In addition, he has represented such utility’s energy subsidiary in gas exploration and development transactions in Europe. In addition to his legal experience, Frank has founded investment banks in Pittsburgh and Frankfurt, Germany. Frank earned his B.S., with honors, from Carnegie Mellon University in 1969. At Duke Law School, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal.
Caroline Gottschalk, ‘90 is a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the firm’s Corporate Department, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. Ms. Gottschalk advises private equity funds, as well as public and private companies, in a wide range of corporate matters, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, investments in banks and other financial institutions, other strategic investments, spin-offs, joint ventures and special committee representations.
Ms. Gottschalk has been a partner at Simpson Thacher since 2000. She is co-chair of the Firm’s Recruiting Committee. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1984, and graduated with high honors from Duke Law School, where she was a member of Order of the Coif and a Member and Managing Editor of the Alaska Law Review. Ms. Gottschalk is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she served until recently as a member of the Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Robert Gregg, ‘74 is a partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Virginia. Robert Gregg focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), general business representation and government contract counseling with an emphasis on representing companies providing products and services to the US government. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. He was also named part of the Legal Elite for 2009 by the readership of Washington SmartCEO.
Robert’s general business representation includes counseling clients with respect to the organization of technology companies, acquisitions and sales of businesses, protection of trade secrets, licensing of technology and computer software and venture capital investments.
Robert is a member of the Business Law and Science and Technology Sections of the American Bar Association and has served as a state and division chair of the ABA Public Contract Law Section. He also is involved in a variety of civic and business organizations.
Jieni Gu, ‘06 is a member of the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Groups. Her practice focuses on transactional matters, such as mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings in various industry sectors, including the banking, manufacturing and entertainment industries. Jieni has been involved in the Firm’s representation of financial institutions in connection with the global credit crisis, advising banks and insurance companies on capital raises and acquisition-related matters. She has been a member of the UBS shelf team that advises UBS on its regular notes offerings. Jieni is a member of the Firm’s Associate Experience and Women’s Initiative Committees.
Kathleen Hamm, ‘88 heads the firm’s Securities Practice Group, where she specializes in securities, derivatives, and corporate regulatory, compliance, and enforcement matters. As a former senior regulatory official at the Securities and Exchange Commission, she helps clients navigate the regulatory, compliance, and risk-management challenges confronting broker-dealers, investment advisers, credit rating agencies, national securities exchanges, and other entities regulated by the SEC and securities regulators globally.
Susanne Haas, ’87, LLM ’85 is vice president and general counsel for environmental and combustion control, a division of the automation and control business of Honeywell International Inc. Haas is responsible for all legal affairs of her business which has revenues of about $2.5B worldwide. Environmental and combustion control products include, among others, gas valves, thermostats, boiler controls, air cleaners, humidifiers, and commercial building control systems. Haas received a law degree from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany before coming to Duke Law School.
John Hardiman, ‘82 was resident in Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office for nearly five years, where he was co-head of the European Litigation and Arbitration Group, returning to the New York office in 2010. Mr. Hardiman has worked on a wide range of high stakes contests for corporate control starting with British Petroleum’s purchase of Standard Oil in 1986. He also has considerable experience handling regulatory investigations for the Firm’s broker-dealer and corporate clients, as well as representing boards of mutual funds including the independent directors of a variety of funds managed by AllianceBernstein in connection with litigation driven by the “late trading” and “market timing” investigations conducted by the New York Attorney General’s office beginning in 2003.
Michael K. Hoffman, ’89 is a partner in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group. He represents public and private investment funds, business development companies, investment advisers, underwriters and investment banks in connection with the structuring and distribution of financial products in U.S. and cross-border transactions. Mr. Hoffman regularly counsels investment funds and their boards of directors, advisory boards and investment advisers in connection with transactional, regulatory and compliance issues. In the public investment company area, Mr. Hoffman has advised issuers and underwriters in more than 50 offerings of common and preferred shares of open-end and closed-end investment companies. He has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.
Mr. Hoffman received his B.A. (cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame in 1986.
Ben Kirschenbaum, ’79 is Vice President & General Counsel at Cooper Square Realty. He is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience in law, residential management and brokerage in New York City. He has served as head of the management operations of a major real estate firm and the director of legal matters for both property management and residential brokerage firms. He has expertise in insurance, regulatory compliance and apartment transfers.
Ben was instrumental in demonstrating to the Department of Housing and Urban Development the flaws in the federal regulations on lead-based paint as applied to cooperatives and condominiums. Modifications in the regulations made it possible for owners and boards to comply with the federal mandates.
Ben is admitted to practice in both New York and Connecticut and is a licensed real estate broker in both states. He sits on the Residential Management Council of the Real Estate Board and is a past chair. He is also a member of the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Association of the Bar of New York City, which produced the model alteration agreement under his direction. Ben was chosen the Residential Real Estate Executive of the Year in 1999.
At Cooper Square Realty, Ben oversees the legal aspects of the Compliance and Transfer Departments. He also coordinates the tax protest process for our managed properties with Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein LLP, a leading tax certiorari firm with whom Cooper Square maintains an alliance.
He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University.
Aya Kobori ‘02 is an associate at White & Case, based in New York City, in the Competition Group. Kobori’s areas of practice include complex and multi-district commercial litigation, securities litigation, antitrust law, and corporate internal investigations. Currently, Kobori is representing a Japanese client before the U.S. Department of Justice and other foreign competition authorities in a multinational antitrust investigation as well as the civil litigation related to the investigation. She is also representing a foreign national currently under investigation for alleged antitrust violations in the United States. Kobori has experience representing U.S. and foreign multinational corporations in matters involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including internal investigations of potential violations of the FCPA, FCPA compliance programs and risk audits and assessments. In addition to her J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Duke Law, Kobori holds a B.A. in Government and East Asian Studies from Cornell University and an M.P.A. from Cornell University.
Patricia Lehtola, ‘84 is Managing Partner at Lehtola & Cannatti. She represents the interests of Texas lenders and mortgage and lending companies. She is also an experienced trial attorney in a wide range of areas including commercial litigation, labor and employment, arbitration, and personal and property injury defense in both federal and state courts. Ms. Lehtola serves on the board of the Duke University School of Law Alumni Association.
Ms. Lehtola received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1981.
Jeffrey P. Libson, ’81 is a Corporate and Securities partner in the Berwyn office of Pepper Hamilton. He is the head of the firm’s life sciences practice. Mr. Libson’s practice is devoted primarily to the areas of securities law, venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and the commercialization, licensing and acquisition of intellectual property. He represents a number of publicly traded and closely held life science companies in ongoing representations as outside general counsel. He also represents a number of nonprofit entities that support the life sciences industry. Mr. Libson has listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialties of biotechnology law and venture capital law. He also has listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for his experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity.
Mr. Libson graduated from Duke University School of Law with distinction. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1976.
Joseph A. McManus, ’72 is a partner at McManus & Darden. Prior to founding the firm, he served as General Counsel to Clark Construction Group and The George Hyman Construction Company and practiced with Smith, Currie & Hancock in Atlanta, specializing in construction and government contracts litigation. Mr. McManus is a past President of American College of Construction Lawyers. He is called upon frequently to serve as an arbitrator of construction disputes. He is a member of the Large Complex Case Panel of Arbitrators and mediator for the American Arbitration Association. Mr. McManus was recently inducted into the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). His commitment to education has included roles as Fellow, Duke University Private Adjudication Center, and as a lecturer to the University of Virginia.
Mr. McManus graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1969.
Lawrence G. McMichael, ’78 is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Dilworth Paxson. He is Vice Chairman, Executive Committee Member, Chair of the firm’s Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the firm’s Bankruptcy & Insolvency Group. Mr. McMichael has experience in both federal and state courts including appellate courts and has tried, as lead counsel, numerous non-jury and major jury trials, involving civil, criminal, bankruptcy and insolvency matters with a special emphasis defending corporate clients in high profile cases. He has been named a Leader in Law by the Philadelphia Business Journal and has listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Bankruptcy and Credit Right Laws.
Mr. McMichael received his B.A. (summa cum laude) from Duke University in 1975.
Sean Memon, ’08, M.B.A. ‘08 is an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell in Washington, D.C. His experience includes advising financial institutions on risk management, corporate governance, and regulatory matters, and he has also represented corporate clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and derivative transactions. Prior to Duke, Memon worked in investment banking at Raymond James and Morgan Stanley and in the mergers and acquisitions group at Time Warner. Memon received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1999.
Jordan Murray, A.B. ‘96 is a corporate partner at Debevoise & Plimpton and a member of the firm’s Private Equity Funds and Investment Management Groups. His practice focuses on advising sponsors of, and institutional investors in, open- and closed-ended private investment funds and separately managed accounts. Mr. Murray represents numerous private equity clients, including Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Deutsche Bank, Diamond Castle, GE Asset Management, Gramercy, NCH Capital, Newport Global Advisors, Pharos Capital, Providence Equity Partners and Rockwood Capital.
Mr. Murray is recommended for private equity fund formation by Chambers USA (2011), where sources note he “is exceptionally creative and responsive in resolving any issues that arise,” and The Legal 500 US (2011), where he is noted as “extremely capable, detail-oriented and a great negotiator.” He is a frequent author and speaker on private equity topics. Mr. Murray recently co-authored “The Price of ‘Pay to Play’,” Investment Dealers’ Digest (February 2011), “Private No More,” The Deal Magazine (November 2010), “A Look at the ILPA Report,” Investment Dealers’ Digest (October 2009) and “The New Rules for Reaching Japanese LPs,” PEI Manager (February 2008). He is also a contributing author of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report.
He received his J.D. cum laude from the Fordham University School of Law in 1999.
David Naftzinger, ’73 is a partner in the Cleveland office of Thompson Hine. He is a partner in the firm’s Commercial and Public Finance and Business Restructuring, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy practice groups. His practice focuses on bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, banking and commercial law, and financing transactions. He has represented debtors and creditors in workout and bankruptcy matters, borrowers and lenders in financing matters. Mr. Naftzinger has been named one of Northeast Ohio’s Leading Bankruptcy lawyers by Inside Business magazine and listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Naftzinger received his B.S. (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
Allen W. Nelson, ’89 is Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer at Crawford & Company. He is responsible for handling legal matters for the firm, overseeing the Company’s Legal Department and performing the duties of corporate secretary. As chief administrative officer, he directs Human Resources, Quality, Compliance and Training, Corporate Communications, Vendor Management and Internal Audit functions. Immediately before joining Crawford, Mr. Nelson served as chief compliance counsel for BellSouth Corporation. He also previously practiced law with the Atlanta-based firms of Hawkins & Parnell and Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore. Mr. Nelson is chairman of the board of Atlanta Ballet. He serves on the board of the Atlanta Duke Law Alumni Club, the local board of the American Heart Association, the Corporate Leadership Council of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, and the board of advisors of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
Mr. Nelson was the J.R. Parkinson Memorial Scholar at Duke University School of Law. He received his A.B. (cum laude) from Duke University in 1986.
Katherine Payne, ‘87 is Vice President, Content Acquisition for Cox Communications, Inc. In this position, Payne is responsible for negotiations for video content rights across all platforms with major content providers such as Fox, Viacom, Scripps, Rainbow, A&E, and numerous regional, professional and collegiate sports channels. She is actively involved in the company’s deployment of video-on-demand, high-definition, mobile, broadband and other advanced video services. Payne joined Cox in 1993 as Attorney. She was later promoted to Senior Counsel and Assistant General Counsel before joining the Cox Content Acquisition department in 2001. Prior to joining Cox, she served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for USTravel Systems Inc. and as Attorney with Dow, Lohnes. A graduate of Duke University, Payne holds a bachelor’s degree in public policy studies, magna cum laude. Payne currently is Chair of the Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT) national board and has served on the board since 2006. She has been an executive member of WICT since 1994 and was a member of Class X of the Betsy Magness Leadership Institute, the premier executive leadership program of WICT. Kathy has served in many other WICT leadership positions, was a founding member of Cable Positive in Atlanta and has been a mentor to many women throughout the industry and at Cox. From 2006 through 2011, Kathy has been recognized multiple times by CableWorld as one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in Cable”. Kathy was selected to receive WICT Atlanta’s 2006 Horizon Award as the Woman to Watch in Atlanta and Multichannel News’ 2007 award for Women to Watch throughout the cable industry. In March of 2009, she was selected as a “Wonder Woman” by Multichannel News. Payne is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. She is married to David Payne, Chief Digital Officer for Gannett, and they have two daughters, Kendall (17) and Halle (15).
Happy Perkins, ‘1980 is a Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company. He served as a Law Clerk to Hon. George C. Edwards, Jr., Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1980-1981. He worked as an associate from 1981-1985 and a Partner from 1986-1991, at Frost Brown Todd (f/k/a/ Brown, Todd & Heyburn) in Louisville, KY. He served as Vice President and General Counsel of GE Appliances from 1995-2002. Mr. Perkins graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1976 with highest distinction and from Duke University School of Law in 1980 with highest distinction. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif.
Darla Pomeroy, ‘91 was co-founder and vice president of strategic development of Edge Wireless, L.L.C., a provider of wireless voice and data service in the northwest, which was sold to AT&T. She has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1996. A graduate of the University of Washington, Duke Law School, and the Wharton School of Business, Ms. Pomeroy is a member of the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia bar associations. She is also serves as a member of the Duke Law & Entrepreneurship LLM Alumni Advisory Board.
Mark J. Rosenberg, ‘89 is Counsel at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP in the Intellectual Property Practice Group and has over 20 years of experience assisting clients in acquiring, protecting, enforcing and licensing their intellectual property rights. Mr. Rosenberg is experienced in all areas of patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, privacy and advertising law. He counsels clients in negotiating and structuring a wide variety of licenses, co-branding, distribution, development, hosting, affiliate, procurement and services agreements. Mr. Rosenberg dedicates a significant part of his practice to e-commerce and Internet marketing law, including CAN-SPAM and Communications Decency Act compliance, advertising, sweepstakes and other games of chance, website development, affiliate, co-branding and hosting agreements, privacy policies and terms of use. As a litigator, he advises clients in cost-effectively avoiding and resolving legal disputes and has successfully handled complex patent, trademark, copyright, unfair competition, trade dress and false advertising actions in federal district and appellate courts, and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Mr. Rosenberg received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1986.
Squire J. Servance, ’08, M.B.A. ‘08 is an associate in Morgan Lewis’s Intellectual Property Practice. Mr. Servance’s practice focuses on patent prosecution, transactions, litigation, and counseling for clients in a wide range of technologies, including financial business methods, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemistry, medical devices, and food science. Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Servance served as a law clerk for Judge Jerome A. Holmes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Mr. Servance was an articles editor for the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and staff editor for the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy. He received his M.B.A. with a concentration in corporate finance and a Certificate in Health Sector Management from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business. He received his B.S., with honors, with a double major in biomedical engineering and cell biology and neuroscience from Rutgers University, School of Engineering in 2004. Mr. Servance presently serves on the boards of Metro Camden Habitat for Humanity and Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance (RAAA), Inc. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Patricia Song, ‘98 is President and Chief Operating Officer of Home Paramount Pest Control, one of the largest pest management firms in the United States. Since becoming President in 2008, Home Paramount Pest Control has achieved double digit growth every year with positive earnings. Ms. Song previously served as Vice President and General Counsel of Home Paramount Pest Control where she managed all aspects of legal and compliance functions including administrative law, contract law, employment law, civil litigation, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and regulatory compliance. Ms. Song received her B.A. from Loyola University in 1995 and her J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1998. She currently serves on the Franklin Square Hospital Foundation Board of Directors and National Pest Management Association Quality Pro Board of Directors. Ms. Song is a member of the Maryland State Bar.
E. Blaine Stanley, ‘87 is Vice President and Counsel for ACE Group with responsibility for government and industry affairs, where she focuses on the public affairs agenda at the state level in 13 Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states and the District of Columbia. Since 1998 Ms. Stanley has held numerous positions at ACE, including serving as Assistant Vice President in ACE’s Brandywine Holdings group managing complex long-term exposure, environmental, coverage and bankruptcy claims and litigation. Prior to joining ACE, Ms. Stanley had more than seven years of litigation experience with Philadelphia law firms, representing clients in commercial litigation matters including environmental insurance coverage. She also served as Assistant Counsel to New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman where in addition to counseling the Governor regarding civil law issues she acted as the Governor’s chief liaison with the New Jersey Assembly and as the Governor’s Ethics Liaison Counsel. Ms. Stanley is an Executive Board Member and Past President of the Homeless Advocacy Project, a nationally recognized charitable organization that provides free legal services to homeless individuals and families in the Philadelphia area. She also volunteers with Autism Speaks. Ms. Stanley is a graduate of Duke University School of Law and the University of Kentucky. She is a Member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.
Jeffrey Tabak, ‘82 is co-head of the private equity fund formation practice of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He regularly represents a number of private investment funds, and their sponsors, in connection with their organization and the acquisition and disposition of their investments. He counsels institutional investors and represents a number of money management firms and has been involved in many acquisitions of money managers. He also has a wide-ranging corporate and securities law practice.
Mr. Tabak serves on Weil’s Financial Regulatory Reform Working Group, advising clients on the implications of new financial reform legislation on private equity sponsors.
In October 2006, Mr. Tabak was named by Private Equity International as one of the thirty most influential lawyers in global private equity. Mr. Tabak has been cited for excellence in the Private Equity field by Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business every year since 2001, including in the 2010 edition, and has consistently been recognized by Chambers USA – American’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in the field of private equity and fund formation. Mr. Tabak was ranked by Legal 500 USA 2009 as a “Leading” Lawyer in Investment Fund Formation and Management: Hedge Funds and was listed as one of the ten most highly regarded attorneys by The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers 2012. Mr. Tabak was also named one of America’s “Top 25 Pre-Eminent Private Equity Lawyers” by The Best of the Best USA 2010.
Mr. Tabak received a B.A. (1979) from Duke University. He graduated magna cum laude and was elected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Michael Ward, 81 is Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel for Showtime Networks in New York City. Prior to joining Showtime, Michael served as Vice President, Distribution Legal Affairs, Tri-Star Pictures, Inc./Assistant General Counsel, Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. He had previously been a litigation associate at Hawkins Delafield & Wood and Higgs Fletcher & Mack. Mr. Ward received his undergraduate degree from State University of New York at Binghamton.
Rashad Wareh, ‘97 is an attorney at the New York offices of Kozusko Harris Duncan. Mr. Wareh counsels entrepreneurs, families, family offices, and privately held businesses in several areas, including trust, tax and estate planning, family office and trust governance, charitable gifts and foundations, formation of family investment funds, venture capital and private placements. Rashad graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude, in international studies, with a concentration on Latin America and a focus on conflict and dispute resolution, from The American University, Washington, D.C. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Duke University School of Law. Rashad has lived in Argentina and is proficient in Spanish. He is licensed in the District of Columbia, New York and Virginia.
Darcy White is a member of the Paul Hasting’s corporate department and its Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. She concentrates her practice on general corporate representation and mergers and acquisitions, and has represented both public and private clients in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, stock acquisitions and divisional asset acquisitions and dispositions. Ms. White also has significant experience with private equity and venture capital transactions. Ms. White has represented companies in a number of industries such as information technology, biotechnology, manufacturing and consulting.
Ms. White is a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and is dedicated to pro bono work. She has helped multiple charitable organizations obtain nonprofit status and has provided them ongoing transactional-related advice.
Ms. White received her B.S. degree, cum laude, from Middle Tennessee State University in 1996. She received her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Boston University in 2001, where she was a member of the Boston University Law Review. Ms. White spent her final semester of law school studying international law at Oxford University in England. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar and the American Bar Association.