Mehrin Masud-Elias [ Associate ]
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: 215.979.1947
Fax: 215.689.4930
Email:
mmasudelias@duanemorris.com
Mehrin Masud-Elias practices in the area of corporate law with a concentration on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, strategic alliances, business law and finance and securities regulation. Ms. Masud-Elias also counsels clients in corporate governance matters and licensing and other technology-related transactions. Prior to joining Duane Morris, she served as assistant deputy general counsel for Comcast Corporation.
Ms. Masud-Elias is a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia. She is the former President of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, a nonprofit arts organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a frequent speaker on panels addressing professional development issues.
Ms. Masud-Elias is a 2001 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also studied Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH).
Areas Of Practice
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Venture Capital
- Licensing/Strategic Alliances
- Business Law and Finance
- Securities Regulation
Representative Matters
- Represented a large U.S. pharmaceutical company in all transactional matters involving the development, manufacture, supply, commercialization and distribution of its pharmaceutical products.
- Represented a large Japanese pharmaceutical company in structuring and negotiating its proposed collaboration, development and license arrangement with a U.S. biopharmaceutical company.
- Represented an Australian biotechnology company, in its divestiture of its U.S. dietary supplement product lines to a U.S. nutritional supplement company.
- Represented large Boston-based financial services companies in numerous merger and acquisition transactions and complex corporate reorganizations.
- Counsel to buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border acquisition and divestiture transactions, including assistance with structuring transactions from business, regulatory and tax perspectives.
- Counsel to technology and life science companies in the structure, negotiation and drafting of various types of licensing and other technology agreements, and joint venture arrangements.
- Counsel to emerging businesses in structuring, negotiating and drafting venture capital and other private equity financing arrangements and related corporate governance, executive compensation, and securities law compliance issues.
Professional Activities
- Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association
- Member, Communications Track Subcommittee of Biotech 2008 - American Bar Association
- Member, Business Law Committee - South Asian Bar Association
- Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter
- Former Board Member, Boston Chapter
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 2001
- Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1997
- Articles Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review
- Chair, Columbia Law Women's Association
- Phi Beta Kappa
Experience
- Duane Morris LLP
- Associate, 2008-present - Comcast Corporation
- Assistant Deputy General Counsel, 2007-2008 - Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Business and Finance Associate, 2006-2007 - Goodwin Procter LLP
- Business Law Associate, 2001-2006
Board Memberships
- South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia
- Board Member, 2008-present - Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
- Board President, 2002-2006
Civic and Charitable Activities
- Paralegal Studies Program of Community College of Philadelphia
- Mentor - Chester Avenue Dog Park
- Volunteer/Member, 2007-present - Friends of Clark Park
- Volunteer, 2006-present
Honors and Awards
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Walter Minton Fellow
- Phi Beta Kappa
Selected Publications
- Pandora/Proloinkarini, Nothing But Red, 2008.
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Panelist, "Challenges Facing South Asian Women in Law," Drexel University, April 2008
- Panelist, "Navigating Diversity in the Workplace," Harvard Law School, April 2006
- Panelist, "Charting a Legal Career," Boston College Law School, October 2005