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Partner Alston & Bird LLP 2005 – Present Partner in the Financial Services and Products Group. Practice concentrates on derivatives, structured products, and alternative investments. New product development and negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of derivatives, structured products and complex financial transactions. Advice on regulatory issues (including Dodd Frank) and counterparty insolvency considerations. Preparation of procedures related to investment and trading businesses. Partner since January 2008. General Counsel Hartz Trading, Inc. 2002 – 2005 Overall responsibility for legal and regulatory matters for a family investment office and fund of funds. Partner Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP 1998 – 2002 Legal advice on derivatives, including structuring of transactions, negotiation of documentation, and dispute resolution. Partner since 2002. Counsel Dresdner Kleinwort Benson North America Services LLC 1997 – 1998 Overall responsibility for legal and regulatory matters in trading businesses of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson’s New York Group, including Dresdner Bank, its broker-dealer subsidiary, derivatives desk, and emerging markets functions. Deputy Counsel The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd., The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd. 1985 – 1997 Serviced capital markets functions of the Bank’s New York Group, including derivatives trading, securities activities, and the broker-dealer, futures commission merchant and Latin American trading subsidiaries. Asssistant Counsel Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company 1981 – 1985 Documentation and attendant negotiations for financing transactions with public and private entities in Europe, Central and South America and the United States. Assistant Analyst Congressional Budget Office, United States Congress 1976 – 1978 Development and application of methodology for short-term and long-term forecasting of federal tax revenue. Economic analysis of federal tax policy. EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania Law School J.D. 1978 – 1981 Yale University M.A., Economics 1975 – 1976 University of Michigan B.S., Mathematics 1971 – 1975 Graduated with High Distinction and with Highest Honors in Mathematics

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