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with the intellectual property department of Lovells. Minoru Takana is a senior manager with the intellectual property alliance & licensing department and intellectual property division of Sony. 2004 Natasha Aljalian welcomed Gabriel. She is an associate in Goodwin Procter’s litigation department. Yuan-Yi Fang returned to Taiwan and is assistant professor of law at Aletheia University. Joachim Knoll is partner at dispute resolution firm Brown & Page in Geneva. Caroline Ming is with International Legal Counsel at SGS Group in Geneva. 2005 Eiji Hagio is an advisor with the investment management & advisory group of Tokyo Electric Power Company. He and his new fiancée plan to marry by year’s end. Makiko Harigai is with Cisco Systems Japan in Tokyo. Pauline Loiseleur des Longchamps is an intern with Veolia in Milwaukee. Giorgio Recine is a partner with Agnoli Bernardi and Associati in Milan. Joerg Struempe is at Quinn Emanuel LLP in Silicon Valley. 2006 Mathilde Cabanettes is junior in-house counsel for Atos Origin, a French software and computing services company. Santiago Lynch and his family welcomed Gonzalo. Stefan Rath is with Bank Vontobel in Munich. 2007 Xun Feng and his wife, Wei-Wu, welcomed Nancy. Qiqi Huang and her husband are living in Chicago and welcomed Nelson. Vera Martinez was mentioned in October’s LatinLawyer. Vera was one of the lawyers who negotiated the acquisition of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for the global private equity firm Advent International. The transaction marks the first Dominican leveraged buyout and the largest Caribbean infrastructure financing in recent years. Thanarak Naowarat is a presiding judge of the Central Intellectual Property and International Trade Court in Thailand. Shizuka Sayama welcomed a baby daughter. Florian von Eyb and his wife, Stephanie, celebrated their wedding last year. 2008 Andrea Armelin da Cunha is the Angola project coordinator at the World Bank. Georgios Kazas is an associate attorney at Zisis Constantinou and Partners, specializing in criminal law. Mayalen Lacabarats is at Dechert LLP in Paris. Sara Mahboob is a project/research manager for the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan. Francesco Spreafico and his wife, Manú, were married last year and are in New York, where he is at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. Sawako Yasuda is in-house counsel at Daikin Industries. Helen Yost and her husband, Bill, welcomed Edward James. Xiaoxiao Zhou is an associate with Fangda Partners. Carolina Rossini received a grant from the Open Society Institute for strategy building and awareness-raising related to open educational resources in Brazil. She is with the Harvard Berkman Center and FGV Law School in Sao Paolo. Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law 1989 Ricardo Charvel has worked for the past four years for CEMEX in Monterrey, Mexico, as VP of institutional relations and communication in Mexico, responsible for government affairs, community relations, media relations and corporate social responsibility. He is also affiliated with Patrimonio Hoy, a microfinance firm geared for home improvement for very lowincome families. 1991 Andres Lapadula (Caracas, Venezuela) won LatinLawyer’s Deal of the Year 2008 Award for the restructuring of the Orinoco oil projects. He also led the team that represented Venezolano de Credito S.A., Banco Universal, Venezuelan trustee in the refinancing of the HAMACA (PDVSA, Chevron and ConocoPhillips) and SINCOR (PDVSA, French oil company Total, and Norway’s StatoilHydro) heavy oil projects in the Orinoco belt. 1994 Dave Morganelli was appointed chair of the federal and state tax committee of the Rhode Island Society of CPAs. Dave chairs the tax practice at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP in Providence. He is a member of the Alumni Association Board of Governors of Providence College and is chairman of the Town of Milford Finance Committee. 1995 Paul Johnson was appointed a member of the board of directors of American Capital Partners. Paul has conducted a national and international securities and corporate legal practice since 1992. He is a member of the Policy & Economics Council of Gerson Lehrman Group, an investment research firm. 1997 Michael Spivey is vice president of global compliance for Wal-Mart International. Since joining Wal-Mart in 2003, he has advised multiple business segments, including serving as Patriot Act compliance officer. 1998 Ramiro Barbosa launched a law firm, Barbosa Abogados, in Buenos Aires, where his main practice areas are banking and financial law, loan restructuring, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions. He is featured in The International Who’s Who of Banking Lawyers. 1999 Ricardo Calderon became partner of Ritch Mueller, SC. Andrew Morganti is with Sutts Strosberg LLP 40 | Boston University School of Law | www.bu.edu/law
and will open the Toronto office. He continues to practice capital markets and shareholders’ rights litigation. 2004 Petros Fatouros and his law firm, Fatouros Lampropoulos & Associates, organized an economic forum “The Young Generation and the Global Economic Crisis” at the Hellenic- American School of Athens College in May. 2005 and 2007 Ernesto Bournigal (’05) and Vitelio Mejia (’07) also negotiated the acquisition of Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI S.A. (Aerodom), for the global private equity firm Advent International. The transaction marks the first Dominican leveraged buyout and the largest Caribbean infrastructure financing in recent years. They were also mentioned in October’s LatinLawyer. 2006 Samuel Mirkin is practicing exclusively in the distressed-debt trading group at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. Antoine Narmino founded a legal advisor office in Monaco, Branado Consulting, with two partners, and also founded Monaco Intellectual Property. 2008 Daniel Alarcon is in Colombia working in the Ministry of Finance, in charge of developing regulations for the Colombian microfinance industry. Colin Darke joined the debtor-creditor rights & bankruptcy group of the Detroit law firm Bodman LLP. The Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice 17, no. 3, published Darke’s article, “What Is In a Trustee’s Arsenal for Objecting to Proofs of Claim An Analysis of In re Kirkland.” 2009 Roy Dias of Miami is practicing at Diaz Rues LLP. Cristián Casanova Dominguez of Santiago is practicing at Carey and Allende. Hung-Ming Hsieh is interning with the SEC in Washington, D.C. Arsala Kidwai was awarded the IDLO Fellowship, and will be working in Rome. Romuald Kpade of Rhode Island is practicing at Citizens Financial Group. Carlos Mainero Ruiz is practicing at White and Case in New York. Bernardo Massella of Rome is practicing at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Beatriz Spiess of Buenos Aires is practicing at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1973 Robert Barr is the executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law. Barr joined the Board of Directors for ThinkFire, an intellectual property advisory, brokerage and licensing firm. The UC Berkeley School of Law recently created a scholarship in his honor. 1982 Eileen Herlihy is an associate professor of law at New England Law Boston, where she teaches patent law, current issues in patent law, and property, and is co-director of the school’s Intellectual Property Institute. She is co-chair of the Intellectual Property Litigation Committee of the Boston Bar Association. She recently published her paper “Appellate Review of Patent Claim Construction: Should the Federal Circuit Be Its Own Lexicographer In Matters Related to The Seventh Amendment” in the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review. 1999 Val Gurvits is a corporate attorney and founding partner of the Boston Law Group LLP. His practice focuses on software, including software license negotiation, copyrights and trade-secret protection. He teaches e-commerce law at BU Law as a lecturer. 2004 Brandy Karl is a residential fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. While there, she litigated with the Fair Use Project in a variety of cases, including Rowling v. RDR and Lennon v. Premise. As a fellow, she litigates copyright fair-use cases and researches issues at the intersection of technology and intellectual property law. Barbara Lauriat is the career development fellow in intellectual property law at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. She is working toward a doctorate in the law faculty with a dissertation focusing on the 1878 Royal Commission on Copyright. At Oxford Law, she teaches IP law and trademark and copyright law. 2005 Brandon Ress is in the trademark practice at Fulbright & Jaworski in Austin, working on trademarks, trade secrets and occasional copyright projects. Graduate Tax Program 1978 Alan S. Goldberg was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia to the Commonwealth of Virginia Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board for a three-year term. 1985 Michael Cooper is a partner at Looper, Reed & McGraw in Dallas. 1996 Anu Mullikin, see 1991 J.D. notes. 2000 Andrew Rothstein is an associate in the private client and trust department at Goulston & Storrs in Boston, which he joined in 2007. 2001 Inna Shestul is at Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus in Arlington, Va. 2003 Frederico Carvalho practices in the M&A transaction services section of Deloitte & Touche in Sao Paolo. 2004 Jeremy Johnson and Amy Johnson welcomed Brynn Annika. Jeremy launched Johnson, Gasink & Baxter LLP in Williamsburg, Va., as one of Fall 2009 | The Record | 41
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