Mr. Alain Personna, Esq. ** Roosevelt Dr. West Haverstraw, NY 10993 212-***-****
Experience
Miami Design District Miami, Florida
Chief Information Officer February 2009 – February 2010
Securitized Dacra Realty recessionary vehicle on behalf of Art Basel hotelier consortium.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP New York, New York
Analyst June 2004 –
January 2009
Managed electronic discovery and regulatory investigations on behalf of reassurance,
commercial and investment banking concerns through custom web-based applications.
Bratter Krieger LLP Miami Beach,
Florida
Associate September 2000 – May 2004
Litigated municipal matters on behalf of transnational securities firms, commodity
brokerages and reassurance concerns before Miami & New York administrative courts.
Schering-Plough Corporation Kenilworth, New Jersey
Crowley Fellow May 1999 – December 1999
Conducted due diligence in preparation for acquisition of UAE pharmaceutical targets.
Drafted memoranda of law on various European Union anti-competition considerations.
Republic of Haiti, Justice Ministry Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Stein Fellow May 1998 – December 1998
Prepared appellate briefs before the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding
extradition matters. Consulted media networks on procedural law of war-crimes tribunal.
Education
Fordham University, School of Law New York, New York
Juris Doctorate, May 2000 Editor, Fordham International Law Journal
Organization of American States archivist regarding jurisprudential consolidation during
human rights communication apprenticeship with Kurzban, Kurzban, Weinger & Tetzeli.
Hofstra University, School of Humanities Hempstead,
New York
Bachelor of Arts, May 1997 Honors, Philosophy & Political Science
DeBrosse Holding communications officer for foreign direct investment vehicles
concerning commodity exploration and production on behalf of the Republic of Angola.
Impunity in Guatemala, 28 AMERICAN INT’L L.J. (May 2001).
Investigation of Guatemala’s thirty-six year internal armed conflict, whereby the Guatemalan military
conducted a counterinsurgency operation at Cuarto Pueblo in 1982. Clerked for U.S. District Court Justices
on international and domestic humanitarian law applicable to military chain of command.
One Country, Two Legal Systems? The Rule of Law, Democracy, and the Protection of
Fundamental Rights in Post-Handover Hong Kong, 23 FORDHAM INT’L L.J. (May 2000). In
January 1999, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal for the first time exercised its power of judicial review
Languages: Proficient in French, German, and Arabic.
Mr. Alain Personna, Esq. 21 Roosevelt Dr. West Haverstraw, NY 10993 212-***-****
under the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The Basic Law, which has been in
place since the July 1997 transfer of sovereignty from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China,
effectively serves as Hong Kong’s Constitution and implements the idea that Hong Kong and the PRC will
function as “One Country, Two Systems.”
Languages: Proficient in French, German, and Arabic.