Sales Real Estate

ANTHONY W. CUMMINGS, Attorney at Law_________________________________

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EXPERIENCE:

Pfife Hudson Group, Inc.

New York, NY

General Counsel/Managing Director, 2007-2010

Advised the insurance investment banking firm in relation to

proposed transactions as well as corporate compliance and

governance; created documents to support specialized life asset

transactions including non-disclosure, joint venture, licensing and

fee arrangements; prepare confidential information memorandums for

acquisitions and capital raise transactions including the related

business, financial and industry analysis; drafted, reviewed and

revised documents in debt and equity financings, mergers and

acquisitions; coordinate the activities of outside counsel

including the preparation of offering memorandums and related

transaction documents as well as in litigation; represent the

company in litigation.

Cummings Law Office

Melville, NY

Attorney at Law, 2001-2007

Performed the duties of general counsel for entrepreneurs and

closely held concerns. Managed the start-up and other critical

transaction for clients including asset sales and purchases,

lending and investment matters. Successfully prosecuted and

defended business claims including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud

and misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of franchise,

exclusive distributorship, shareholder and stock purchase

agreements, corporate dissolution, employment, insurance coverage,

shareholder derivative, trademark infringement, landlord-tenant,

conversion, personal injury, product liability, premise liability,

FDCPA and medical malpractice litigation. Conducted every phase of

pre-trial litigation in both state and federal court; first chair

attorney in over 50 non-jury and jury trials.

Managed and trained paralegals and oversaw the activities of

outside counsel prosecuting and defending commercial cases in

various US jurisdictions for a national commercial collections

agency. Successfully prosecuted and defended business and

commercial claims in both state and federal court for creditor

clients in the following areas: breach of contract, collections,

commercial claims including fraudulent conveyances and preferential

transfers. Designed and maintained databases for departmental

reporting and corporate planning.

Hales & Company

New York, NY

Vice President, 2000-2001

Prepared offering memorandum for insurance related mergers and

acquisitions including agencies and brokerages. Performed

financial analysis for merger and acquisition and capital raising

transactions as well as business valuations. Conducted due

diligence, assessed corporate governance issues, performed industry

research and the analysis of legal documentation related to asset

sales, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising including buy-

sell agreements, credit agreements, operating agreements and

related documents.

First Union Securities, Inc.

Charlotte, NC

Assistant Vice President, 1997-2000

Promoted and delivered Capital Markets products and services to

insurance industry clients through formulating financial strategy

and policy with clients' top management; conceptualized and managed

client relationships across the entire First Union product line.

Performed financial analysis of life/health, property/casualty and

title insurance companies as well as complex transactions. Managed

analysts and coordinated the activities of internal and external

deal team members including bank group members in syndicated loan

facilities. Performed due diligence and financial analysis for

lending transactions.

Costa & Bernstein

Hauppauge, NY

Attorney at Law, 1989-1994

Drafted contracts, pleadings, motions, briefs and memorandum of law

including appellate briefs. Attended conferences, made court

appearances. Argued motions, conducted trials for this business

law and litigation firm including contract, commercial, corporate

dissolution, employment, environmental, personal injury, product

liability, matrimonial, real estate, wills, trusts, estates and tax

matters. Lead attorney in the firms residential and commercial real

estate transaction practice.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Touro College School of Health Sciences, Adjunct Assistant

Professor of Forensic Examination, 2002-2006. Using the case study

approach graduate degree students are provided an awareness of the

practical methods and methodology applied to the collection,

preservation and analysis of evidence to reconstruct, examine or

evaluate probable and possible explanations in selected legal

controversies.

Hofstra University Zarb School of Business, Adjunct Assistant

Professor of Law, 2001-2002. Provide undergraduate students with a

cognizance of basic legal principles and their application to

business problems: topics include the nature and purpose of law,

debtor/creditor law, torts including negligence and product

liability, the federal and state judicial systems, contracts and

sales, trade practices.

Wake Technical Community College, Adjunct Instructor of Business,

1995 & 1997. Provided students with a cognizance of basic legal

principles and their application to individual and business

problems: topics included the nature and purpose of business law,

consumer protection, criminal law, ethics, insurance, personal and

real property, sales, torts, special emphasis on contract law and

unfair competition.

Suffolk County Community College, Adjunct Instructor of Law, 1992-

1994. Provided students with a cognizance of business law and

paralegal studies. Instructed in the areas of agency, bankruptcy,

commercial paper, consumer protection, contracts, corporations,

insurance, law office management and economics, legal process,

paralegal duties and practices, partnership, personal and real

property, sales, secured transactions, unfair competition and

torts.

EDUCATION:

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

Chapel Hill, NC

KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL

Masters of Business Administration, May 1997 (concentration in

finance). MBA Student Association, elected president; Curriculum

Advisory Board, selected class representative; Entrepreneurship,

Real Estate and Venture Capital Club, active member. Chesebrough-

Ponds Marketing Case Competition. Real Estate Development Project.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

Hempstead, NY

Juris Doctor, June 1988. Hofstra Prop. L.J., elected editor in

chief; Juvenile Justice Program, coordinator; Legal Research Law

Fellow, selected teaching assistant; Student Admissions Committee,

elected chairperson; Trial Advocacy Club, elected president. ATLA

National Student Trial Advocacy Competition. Awarded the

Distinguished Academic Scholarship. Phi Alpha Delta Writing

Competition winner.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

Hempstead, NY

Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics, August 1985. Army

Reserve Officers' Training Corps, selected logistics officer;

Residential Life Student Judicial Board, selected member; "The

Chronicle," selected staff writer/circulation manager; Bovenaan

Award; Distinguished Military Student Award; National Defense

Preparedness Association Award.

BAR ADMISSIONS:

States: New York, 1988; District of Columbia, 1990; North Carolina,

1995.

MEMBER:

Amistad Black Bar Association of Long Island

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