VIVEK N. BORAY
Apartment *D
Brooklyn, New York 11201
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EXPERIENCE
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Riyadh, KSA January 2009-
September 2009
Corporate Associate
Advised a number of international corporate clients on a variety of matters
involving establishing and operating entities in the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia. Experience included:
Corporate Governance & Strategic Counseling: establishing joint venture
vehicles in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, advising on Saudi foreign
investment laws and regulations including, drafting, preparing and
negotiating equity and contractual joint venture agreements, technology and
intellectual property license agreements and technical support agreements.
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, New York, NY June 2007-April
2008
Corporate Finance Associate
Acted as counsel, frequently as sole junior corporate finance associate on
the deal, to investment banks and private equity funds. Experience
included:
Debt Instruments: structuring, documenting and negotiating credit
agreements, intercreditor agreements, and security agreements.
Financial Restructuring: advising parties in debtor-in possession and
bankruptcy exit financings.
Firm Global Initiatives: working with senior partner to draft and present
a strategic plan for an India Practice to the firm's executive committee.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Palo Alto, CA November 2005 -
May 2007
Corporate Associate
Acted as corporate counsel, frequently as sole junior corporate associate
on the deal, to both public companies and private companies in various
stages of maturity. Experience included:
Mergers & Acquisitions (including cross-border transactions): advising on
structure; performing due diligence, preparing reports, managing
disclosure, drafting and negotiating terms within sale and purchase
agreements, ancillary agreements, NDA's, term sheets; managing closing;
post-closing matters.
Corporate Finance: acting as company and investor counsel in a wide range
of financings including venture financings, private placements and initial
public offerings;
Corporate Governance & Strategic Counseling: advising on corporate
formation and structuring, corporate governance, securities compliance,
financing strategy, intellectual property protection, commercial issues and
personnel matters; and
Securities and Debt Instruments: structuring, documenting and negotiating
stock purchase agreements, stock transfer agreements, stock option plans,
warrants, and convertible notes.
EDUCATION
University of London, London, UK 2003-2004
LL.M. in Commercial and Corporate Law
Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN
2000-2003
J.D., Cum Laude
Merit Scholarship, 2000-2003
Social Science Research Council Grant, 2002
University of Texas, Austin, TX 1996-2000
B.A. with Honors, History
Merit Scholarship, 1997-2000
Scholarship for Excellence in South Asian History
BAR ADMISSIONS
New York (admitted March 2005)
California (admission pending; passed July 2006 California Bar Exam)
LANGUAGES
Some knowledge of Kannada, Hindi and Italian
Studied Portuguese and Uzbek
INTERESTS
Literature, art, music, cinema, sports, politics
VIVEK N. BORAY
20 Sidney Place
Apartment 2D
Brooklyn, New York 11201
**********@*****.***
REPRESENTATIVE DEALS
FINANCINGS
Represented an Indian semiconductor manufacturer in their initial off-shore
formation and Series A Preferred Stock investment by a major international
electronics company.
Represented a Silicon Valley semiconductor manufacturer in a Series C
Preferred Stock financing.
Underwriters' counsel in the Initial Public Offering of a medical device
manufacturer.
Investor counsel in a Series A Preferred Stock financing of a Silicon
Valley internet technology company.
Counsel to a lender in a financing of a dual-use gambling and horse track
racing facility.
Counsel to the investor in its early stage financing of an Indian internet
technology company.
Advised investor in a financing of an Indian electric car manufacturer.
Investor counsel in a venture financing for an Indian travel website.
Counsel to agent and lender in a debt financing of a leading supplier of
beverage and dispensing equipment.
Advised lender regarding a credit facility for an advertising sales
management systems company.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
Sole associate in the representation of a major international supplier of
enterprise business solutions in an asset purchase and expansion of their
Indian operations; duties included directing foreign local counsel's
diligence on client's Indian matters and advising on employment and
property matters.
Coordinated local diligence and advised on deal terms for a global software
company's Indian asset purchase and establishment of operations in India.
Counsel to a medical device company in their acquisition by a major medical
instruments manufacturer.
GENERAL CORPORATE
Counsel to a leading multinational pharmaceutical company with regard to
manufacturing and licensing matters in the Middle East
Advised a multinational pharmaceutical company in the organizing and
setting up of operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Local counsel in Saudi Arabia for a US conglomerate on the establishment of
an industrial joint venture in Saudi Arabia to manufacture the company's
products, including preparation of the joint venture agreement, articles of
association and related agreements
Counsel to numerous US, UK and European companies regarding entering into
distribution agreements with Saudi distributors, including termination of
distributors and assisting in litigation regarding such terminations
Counsel to numerous US, UK and European companies on Saudi labor issues,
including Saudiization, block visas, employment contract issues and
handling of disputes