Maura Griffin

Nationality: United States
Languages: English, French
Country Experience: Benin, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Madagascar, Senegal, Tanzania

Years of Experience:
15

Expertise:
Other, Legal, Development Financing Transactions, Corporate Governance, Institutional Capacity Building, Entity Formation Structuring, and Strategic Planning, International Procurement, International Law and Foreign Assistance

Strategic and transactional services professional with over 15 years of international legal and foreign policy experience. An attorney highly-skilled at structuring, negotiating and documenting transactions and facilitating efficient and effective implementation - in private and public sectors at the local, national, and international level. Experienced as outside counsel and in-house counsel, including serving as a direct advisor to senior management with an active role in addressing management, corporate governance, compliance, and operational issues.

Academic Qualifications:

• LL.M., International and Comparative Law, February 1998 (Honors: With Distinction), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC;
• Juris Doctor, May 1996 (Honors: magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Tulane Law Review, Inn of Court, Forgotson Scholarship), Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana;
• B.A., Political Science and Certificate of International Studies, May 1989 (Honors: Pi Sigma Alpha, Deans List), College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts;
• Institut de Tourraine, Institut d'tudes Politiques de Paris, Institut Catholique, Universit de Paris VII, and Acadmie de Sevres. Sweet Briar College. Paris, France. 1987 - 1988.

Principal, International Legal and Policy Advisor
Maura E. Griffin, Esq.
United States
March 2007

• Advise organizations, for-profit entities, educational institutions and public donors investing or operating in developing countries and emerging markets. Practice covers development financing transactions (including grants and loans) and other related financings and transactions such as public-private partnerships, microfinance and conservation finance;
• Cross-border/international transactions (including in-bound U.S. investments), domestic and foreign business operations, corporate social responsibility, entity formation, structuring, and strategic planning; corporate governance, international procurement;
• Outsourced general counsel services, including managing local counsel and other specialists; and technical assistance, particularly in the corporate law area and institutional capacity building, and assistance with project design as it relates to legal and policy reforms or implementation structuring;
• Registered as a legal advisor with the ABA-UNDP/International Resource Center for short-term technical assistance projects. Operate boutique law practice with an entrepreneurial perspective and goal of achieving triple bottom line.

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Date Available:
15 Feb 2010

Preferred Assignment:
Short Term

Contact:
mgriffin@usa.net

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