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Michael A. Weiss

Michael A. Weiss is a Member of Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC. Mr. Weiss's practice is concentrated in corporate matters with particular focus on the tax aspects of business financing, acquisitions and mergers, corporate governance and estate and business succession planning. During his 30 years of practice, Mr. Weiss has completed transactions involving operations in companies in the metals, pharmaceutical, railroad and manufacturing industries throughout the United States and in numerous foreign countries. He has served as Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of L.B. Foster Company, and as Secretary and General Counsel of Rouge Steel Company and MotivePower Industries, Inc. (formerly MK Rail Corporation). He was responsible for all of their legal affairs including corporate governance and securities law matters of publicly traded corporations.

Mr. Weiss has also served on the Boards of Directors of numerous entities including Vision Benefits of America, a publicly licensed and regulated vision benefits insurance company. He is an active participant in many civic and community organizations, Past Chair of the National Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association, having served as its Chair in 2002-2003. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association Research Foundation. Mr. Weiss has also received numerous honors and awards including the American Diabetes Association's Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Services in the Cause of Diabetes. He is a member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Governor's Chronic Care Management, Reimbursement and Cost Reduction Commission (appointed by the Honorable Edward G. Rendell, Governor).

Among his professional accomplishments, Mr. Weiss has:

• Represented a steel products distribution company specializing in rail materials, tubular goods and construction products, in its sale to an internationally recognized leverage buyout firm. As General Counsel, he oversaw the Company's initial public offering of its common stock, successfully raising over $33 million in fresh equity capital.

• Rolled back nearly one hundred years of labor protection of railroad employees under Interstate Commerce Commission regulations in a transaction that became the model for dozens of national railroad reorganizations.

• Served as corporate general counsel in the initial public offering of a fully integrated domestic steel manufacturer with annual sales of over $1.1 billion.

• Successfully protected a publicly held manufacturer of rail and related transportation products from the financial difficulties and ultimate bankruptcy reorganization of its majority stockholder.

• Drafted and negotiated numerous pharmaceutical development and marketing agreements on behalf of a large, publicly-held drug manufacturer.

• Assisted in the privatization of state-owned above ground passenger railway and subway systems in Argentina for an American client.