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= Mark A. Meyer (lawyer) =

Mark A. Meyer is a New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law.

Meyer was a special advisor for legal and economic matters to five European heads of state including Presidents Ion Iliescu and Emil Constantinescu of Romania, Presidents Mircea Snegur and Petru Lucinschi of Republic of Moldova, and President Milo Djukanovic of the Republic of Montenegro. President Emil Constantinescu of Romania appointed Meyer as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Improvement of the Business Environment in Romania. In 2004, the President of Romania decorated Meyer with Romania’s National Order of Merit. In 2006, President Vladimir Voronin of the Republic of Moldova bestowed upon Meyer the Republic of Moldova’s Medal of Civic Merit.

Meyer is an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law   in New York City where he teaches “Transactions in Emerging Markets”. In 2007, St. John’s University School of Law conferred upon Meyer the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, describing him as “a pioneer in promoting the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990.”

Meyer is the Chair of the Foreign and Comparative Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and a member of the City Bar's Council on International Affairs. When Meyer was Chair of the European Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar, he led the mission which authored an influential report in 2006 on the violations of international law in Moldova's separatist enclave of Transnistria which became a United Nations document and formed the basis for a resolution of the Government of Moldova adopting a plan of action to utilize the rule of law to resolve the Transnistrian crisis.

In 2004, Meyer was named a Harvard Law School Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus for his “great skill in the economic, legal and political transformation of a developing region”. He is the recipient of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Pinnacle Award, its highest honor for distinguished alumni.

Meyer is a member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association, as well as the panel of the Romanian Court of International Commercial Arbitration in Bucharest. He is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation of the American Bar Association.

Meyer has been Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest bilateral trade organization in the world devoted to Romania, since 1990. Meyer has received the Libertatea Award as one of the ten most significant persons in the world to Romania. He is also Vice President of the Congress of Romanian Americans (the only non-Romanian-American officer of the Congress), and the author of numerous articles in international publications on a wide variety of legal issues, contributing monthly to The Romanian Digest™.

Mr. Meyer lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe on legal aspects of doing business in the region.

Meyer is admitted to the New York Bar and the Bucharest Bar. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’s highest legal ability rating of "AV" (Very High to Preeminent) and is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business.