Mark
A. Meyer
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Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C.
40 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 |
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(212 ) 471-8453 (Direct
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(212) 344-3333 |
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Mr. Meyer is a leading international lawyer with a widely recognized
expertise in international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions,
privatizations, and international arbitrations for major U.S., European and
Israeli corporations engaged in manufacturing, energy, tourism,
transportation, telecommunications, real estate development and
capital-raising activities in Southeast Europe and the United States,
coupled with similar extensive experience in Western Europe and Israel.
He is a member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the
International Centre for Dispute Resolution SM (ICDR), the international
division of the American Arbitration Association, as well as the panel of
the Romanian Court of International Commercial Arbitration in Bucharest. He
is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation of the American Bar
Association.
Mr. Meyer is an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of
Law in New York City where he teaches “Transactions in Emerging Markets”.
Mark Meyer has been a special advisor for legal and economic matters to six
European heads of state including the Presidents of Romania, the Republic of
Moldova and the Republic of Montenegro. In 2004, the President of Romania
decorated Mr. Meyer with Romania’s National Order of Merit in the Rank of
Commander. In 2006, the President of the Republic of Moldova bestowed upon
Mr. Meyer the Republic of Moldova’s highest civilian decoration, the Medal
of Civic Merit.
In 2007, St. John’s University School of Law conferred upon Mr. Meyer the
degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, describing him as “a pioneer
in promoting the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990.” In
2004, Mr. Meyer was named a Harvard Law School Traphagen Distinguished
Alumnus for his “great skill in the economic, legal and political
transformation of a developing region”. He is the recipient of Fairleigh
Dickinson University's Pinnacle Award, its highest honor for distinguished
alumni. Mr. Meyer has been Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of
Commerce, which is the largest bilateral trade organization in the world
devoted to Romania, since 1990. Mr. Meyer has received the Libertatea Award
as one of the ten most significant persons in the world to Romania. He is
also Vice President of the Congress of Romanian-Americans (the only
non-Romanian-American officer of the Congress), and the author of numerous
articles in international publications on a wide variety of legal issues.
Mr. Meyer lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe on legal
aspects of doing business in the region. He was once an Assistant District
Attorney in New York County, where he prosecuted offenders indicted for
crimes such as rape, robbery and attempted murder, and he taught as an
Instructor of Law at Boston University School of Law. He is a graduate of
Fairleigh Dickinson University, St. John's University, and Harvard Law
School.
Mark Meyer is the Chair of the Foreign and Comparative Law
Committee of the New York City Bar Association and a member of the City
Bar's Council on International Affairs. When Mr. Meyer was Chair of the
European Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar, he led the mission
which authored an influential report in 2006 on the violations of
international law in Moldova's separatist enclave of Transnistria which
became a United Nations document and formed the basis for a resolution of
the Government of Moldova adopting a plan of action to utilize the rule of
law to resolve the Transnistrian crisis.
The former President of Romania, H. E. Emil Constantinescu, appointed Mr.
Meyer in May 1999 as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the
Improvement of the Business Environment in Romania. The Commission, which
included representatives of the Government, Parliament, labor and the
business community, held public hearings throughout the country and
presented a comprehensive report to the President which contained numerous
recommendations that have since been enacted into law.
Mr. Meyer is a member of Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., and Rubin Meyer Doru &
Trandafir, spca, and he is admitted to the New York Bar and the Bucharest
Bar. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest legal ability rating of "AV"
(Very High to Preeminent) and is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who
in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and
Business.
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