Mark A. Belnick
Head of Firm
Email: mbelnick@belnicklaw.com

Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Securities Litigation; White Collar Criminal Litigation; International Litigation; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Government Litigation; Internal Corporate Investigations; Government Investigations; Intellectual Property Litigation; Arbitration; International Arbitration.

Admitted: 1972, New York; 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1975, U.S. Supreme Court; 1978, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Law School: Columbia University, J.D., 1971

College: Cornell University, B.A., cum laude, 1968

Member: The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member: Committee on Federal Legislation, 1979-1980; Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, 1981-1984; Committee on Securities Regulation, 1987-1988; Committee on Litigation, 1993-1994), New York State and American Bar Associations.

Biography: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1971. University Lecturer, Dept. of Politics, Princeton University 2007-. Adjunct Professor of Law, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, 1982-1983. Executive Assistant to the Chief Counsel (Deputy Chief Counsel), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, 1987. Chief Counsel, NASD Select Committee on Structure and Governance, 1994-1995. Committee on Grievances Panel of Attorneys for the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1996-1998. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (Member, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Committee, 1995-1997; Downstate New York Committee, 1997). Member, Panel of Mediators and Fact-Finders of the New York State Public Employment Relations Board, 1971-1974. Member, Columbia Law School, Board of Visitors, 1996-. Director and Principal Instructor, Cornell University Pre-Law Program and Visiting Professor of Government, 1999-2005, University Council Member, 1992-1996, 1998-2002 and Member, Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations, 1994-1997, Cornell University. Member, Advisory Council, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences, 1993-. Member: Board of Directors, Lawyers' Action Committee on Violence, 1994-1996; Board of Directors, The Legal Aid Society of the City of New York, 2000-2005; Board of Governors, Thomas Aquinas College, 1999-; Executive Committee, Thomas Aquinas College Board of Governors, 2008-. Board of Trustees, Newark Academy, 2000-2002; Advisory Board, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, 2000-2002. Board of Overseers, Witherspoon Institute: Center on Religion and the Constitution, 2008-. Associate, Marshall, Bratter, Greene, Allison & Tucker, 1971-1972. Associate, 1972-1979 and Partner, 1979-1998, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Chief Corporate Counsel and Executive Vice President, Tyco International, Ltd., 1998-2002. Member, Cornell University Council, 2006-. Listed: "Who's Who in America,"; "Who's Who in American Law,"; "Who's Who in the East.", Named one of Manhattan's "Super Lawyers" (top 5% of attorneys in Manhattan) by "Law and Politics.", 2006, 2007, 2008.

Reported Cases: Commercial Union Assurance Co., PLC. v. Milken, 17 F.3d 608 (2d Cir. 1994); Allegheny Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. v. Mid-Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 690 F.2d 411 (4th Cir. 1982); In re American Express Shareholders Litigation, 840 F. Supp. 260 (S.D.N.Y. 1993), aff'd, 39 F.3d 395 (2d Cir. 1994); In re Woolworth Corporation Securities Class Action Litigation, 1996, U.S. Dist. Lexis 7773 (S.D.N.Y. 6/6/96)

Born: Elizabeth, New Jersey, October 30, 1946

ISLN: 909125859