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Azim Chowdhury
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
Suite 2000
111 South Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21202-6114
USA

Phone: 410.949.2907
Fax: 410.510.1274
Email: achowdhury@duanemorris.com

Azim Chowdhury practices in the areas of intellectual property, with an emphasis in life sciences matters, including food, drug and pharmaceutical law, as well as in litigation. Mr. Chowdhury has experience dealing with regulatory and compliance issues before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and has represented clients before the Executive Office of Immigration Review Immigration Court. Mr. Chowdhury has also represented numerous clients on a pro bono basis.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Chowdhury served as judicial law clerk for the Honorable Timothy E. Meredith of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. Mr. Chowdhury is a 2006 cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and a graduate of the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business (M.B.A.) and Johns Hopkins University (B.A., B.S.).

Representative Matters

• Successfully obtained asylum before the Executive Office of Immigration Review Immigration Court in Baltimore, Maryland, for a minor from El Salvador who fled his home country because of violence he and his nuclear family faced from an international gang.

Professional Activities

• Maryland State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society
• National Association of Muslim Lawyers

Admissions

• Maryland
• District of Columbia

Education

• University of Maryland, M.B.A., 2006
• University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2006
• The Johns Hopkins University, B.A., B.S., 2003

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2007-present
• The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
  - Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Timothy E. Meredith, 2006-2007
• New Markets Growth Fund, venture capital fund
  - Associate, 2005-2006

Honors and Awards

• Duane Morris 2010 Pro Bono Award

Selected Publications

• Author, "How Will the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act Impact the Electronic Cigarette Industry?" FDLI Update, September/October 2009
• Author, "FDA Issues Draft Guidance Regarding the Incorporation of Physical-Chemical Identifiers into Solid Oral Dosage Form Drug Products for Anticounterfeiting," Duane Morris Alert, July 17, 2009
• Author, "SEC Provides Guidance Regarding Use of Company Websites to Disclose Information for Investors," Duane Morris Alert, August 15, 2008; republished in Journal of Investment Compliance, August 21, 2008
• Author, "Venture Capital Investment in China: Impact of SAFE Circulars 11, 29, and 75," National Venture Capital Association Venture Capital Review, Spring 2006