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Manager Management

Location:
7030
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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Timothy C. Harker

** **** ******, ***. **** Hoboken, NJ 07030

Email: ********@*****.*** Cell: 571-***-****

Education

. University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Juris Doctor, 2007

. University of Maryland, R.H. Smith School of Business, College Park,

Maryland

Bachelors of Science, 2002, Double Major Management Science &

Statistics and Operations Management

Professional Experience

. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Associate (New York, October 2007 -

October 2009)

Private Funds Formation/Investment Group

o Draft substantive legal agreements in connection with formation of

large private equity and hedge fund complexes (of various investment

strategies) as well as captive funds, including exhaustive limited

partnership agreements and LLC agreements, private placement and

offering memoranda, secondary and rollover transaction agreements,

transfer agreements, subscription agreements and associated

documents, side letter agreements, management agreements, and legal

opinions pertaining to securities, tax, and enforceability issues.

o Manage large (often in excess of $200 million) private equity and

hedge fund investments and negotiate extensively on behalf of

various clients including large corporate investors, governmental

pension plans, individual private investors, not-for-profit

organizations, and university endowments, among others.

o Advise clients regarding manager-investor disputes, fraudulent fund

investment schemes, and other issues including compliance with

Investment Adviser's Act and Investment Company Act, and other laws;

assist clients with development of various fund strategies including

arbitrage, distressed debt opportunities, asset-backed securities

(including MBS), and commodities.

Mergers & Acquisitions Group

o Draft due diligence memoranda in connection with large corporate

acquisitions; assist with drafting of stock and asset purchase

agreements for acquisitions and divestitures; draft employment

agreements, transition services agreements, letters of intent, non-

disclosure/non-compete agreements, escrow agreements, and a wide

variety of other ancillary agreements.

o Coordinate/manage foreign counsel with respect to legal and

contractual issues arising in connection with multi-jurisdictional,

international acquisitions; conference with clients and opposing

counsel re: legal, business and contractual issues concerning

acquisitions/divestitures.

Litigation Practice Group, Summer Associate (New York, Summer 2006)

o Perform research regarding bankruptcy and securities litigation

issues; draft memoranda regarding substantive points of bankruptcy

and securities law.

. Credit Suisse, Customized Fund Investment Group, Secondee (New York,

Fall 2008)

Selected for two-month secondment from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

o Review offering memoranda and related materials for compliance with

relevant securities laws and other applicable law; collaborate with

external and internal counsel regarding negotiation and drafting of

formative investment agreements, side letter agreements, legal

opinions and subscription agreements in connection with captive fund

of funds, direct investments and co-investments.

. Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General, Intern

(Summer 2005)

o Research and write memoranda regarding legal and legislative issues

including the applicability of the Fair Labor Standards Act to the

Virginia Department of Transportation, the responsibility of the

Virginia Attorney General to defend state employees in tort

defamation cases, and FAA preemption of state aviation laws.

. U.S. Library of Congress, GS-12 Computer Programmer (Washington D.C.

2002 - 2004)

o Serve as lead programmer for a variety of complex, library-wide

programming projects, including development of search engine

heuristics, relational databases, and associated structured queries;

promoted after receiving "outstanding" performance evaluation.

Honors; Accomplishments

. University of Michigan, Law School

o Henry M. Campbell Moot Court and Brief Writing Competition,

Quarterfinalist (2007)

o Henry M. Campbell Moot Court and Brief Writing Competition,

Quarterfinalist (2006)

o Michigan State Bar, Statewide First Year Oral Advocacy Competition,

Second Place (2005)

o Model Exam Answer in Commercial Transactions (Fall 2006)

. University of Maryland

o Academic Honors (Fall 2001, Spring 2001, Fall 2000, Spring 1999)

o Recruited on scholarship to NCAA Division I varsity lacrosse team

(ranked #2 in the United States at the time) (1998)

. Admissions; Membership

o Admitted to the New York State Bar (2008); Sitting for Connecticut &

New Jersey Feb. 2010

o Federalist Society, Member (2010)

o Federalist Society, Member & Regional Alumni Director for the

University of Michigan (2009)

o Mont Pelerin Society Fellow, Reykjavik, Iceland (2005)

o Mont Pelerin Society Fellow, Salt Lake City (2004)

o Mont Pelerin Society, F.A. Hayek Essay Contest, Honorable Mention

(2004)

. Other

o LSAT: 170 (98th percentile); GRE: 800 Quantitative (perfect score) /

750 Verbal (99th percentile)

o Relevant Law School Coursework: securities regulation, business

organizations, federal antitrust, real-estate finance, insurance

regulation, commercial transactions, evidence, federal income

taxation, jurisdiction & choice of law, international trade law,

trusts & estates

o Relevant Undergraduate Coursework: substantial coursework in

finance, microeconomics, macroeconomics, accounting, advanced

statistics and mathematics

SKILLS, OTHER

o Extensive professional experience with C, Perl, Visual Basic,

Python, PHP, Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, HTML,

relational databases including Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, Microsoft

Access, and various client and server operating systems.

o Intermediate Spanish speaking, reading, and writing.

o Working Paper: "Bailment Ailment: An Analysis of Anomalous Legal

Precedent Governing Ordinary Bank Deposits."[pic]



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