Cameron F. MacRae III
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-4086
USA
Phone: +1 212 471 4706
Fax: +1 212 504 2654
Email: CFMacRae@duanemorris.com

Cameron F. MacRae III practices in the areas of corporate, financial, and energy law, with more than 40 years of experience in both private and government practice. Mr. MacRae has represented numerous major corporations and financial institutions in the insurance, banking, investment banking, energy (oil, gas and utilities), as well as the manufacturing and real estate sectors. His areas of experience include general corporate and transactional law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities law, banking law and real estate transactional law.

Mr. MacRae was for many years a senior partner of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP (a predecessor firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP). Through the decade of the 1990s, Mr. MacRae was Chairman of LeBoeuf, Lamb's large Corporate and Finance Department, and for the latter part of that period served as the Vice Chairman of that firm.

Mr. MacRae also previously served as General Counsel and Deputy Superintendent of the New York State Banking Department from 1972 to 1974 (during the later years of the Rockefeller Administration). He also served as Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel to the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force, from 1966 to1969 (while on active duty as an Air Force Captain).

Mr. MacRae graduated from Princeton University and thereafter from Yale Law School, where he served as Note and Comment Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Mr. MacRae is a member of the bars of New York and Washington, D.C.

Among the many clients Mr. MacRae has represented in the insurance, banking, investment banking, energy (oil, gas and utilities), manufacturing, real estate and governmental sectors are the following:

• Financial Institutions — Western & Southern Financial Group; Life Re; DZ Bank; Bank of N.T. Butterfield (Bermuda); UBS AG; CBI-TDB; Banamex; Credit Suisse Group; Union Bancaire Privee; and the Securities Investor Protection Computation (SIPC).
• Oil, Gas & Utilities — Marine Preservation Association (consortium of major oil industry companies, established to develop plans to respond to, contain and clean up catastrophic oil spills; members include Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell and Conoco Phillips); Enron; and LOOP, Inc.
• Real Estate — Paramount Group, Inc. (US real estate company affiliate of Otto Versand, West Germany) Amtrak (in connection with redevelopment plans for Penn Station); and Gruppo Sorgentes.
• Manufacturing — Richemont Group; Puerto Rican Cement.
• Governmental — Department of the Treasury, Government of Puerto Rico.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate and Transactional Law
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Securities Law
• Banking
• Real Estate

Professional Activities

• New York State Bar Association
  - Member, Committee on Banking Law, 1976-1978
  - Member, Committee on Securities Regulation, 1988-1990

Admissions

• New York
• District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Education

• Yale Law School, LL.B., 1966
  - Note and Comment Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1964-1966
• Princeton University, A.B., cum laude, 1963

Experience

• Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP)
  -Partner, Chair of Corporate & Finance Department
• New York State Banking Department
  - Deputy Superintendent and General Counsel, 1972-1974
• U.S. Air Force, Captain
  - Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Air Force, 1966-1969

Honors and Awards

• Listed in Who's Who in America
• Listed in Who's Who in the World