Michael D. Butterman
Of Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-4086
USA
Phone: +1 212 692 1053
Fax: +1 212 202 4653
Email: mdbutterman@duanemorris.com

Michael D. Butterman practices in the area of international corporate, estate planning, banking and finance law, with a focus on Latin America.

Mr. Butterman is a 1959 graduate of Yale Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of Lehigh University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also was the Smith Mundt Exchange Scholar at the National University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Mr. Butterman speaks Spanish and Portuguese.

Admissions

• New York

Education

• Yale Law School, LL.B., 1959
• Lehigh University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1956

Experience

• Bryan Cave LLP (merged with Robinson Silverman), 1989-2007
• Freeman, Butterman, Haber, Rojas and Stanham LLP
  - Partner, 1989-2003
• Cameron & Hornbostel (formerly Cameron Hornbostel & Butterman)
  - Partner, 1975-1989
• Xerox Corporation, Latin American, Canadian and U.S. Operations
  - Counsel, 1966-1975
• U.S. Department of State - Agency for International Development (USAID)
  - Mission to Brazil, Loan Officer, 1965-1966
  - Mission to Bolivia, Loan Officer and Legal Advisor, 1962-1965
• Grant & Hermann
  - Associate, 1961-1962

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Stonebrook Condominium Association
  - Director, Former President

Selected Publications

• "Private Investment in Bolivia: Organizing to do Business," Inter-American Law Review, July-December, 1964

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Speaker, "The Legal and Regulatory Environment in Brazil, Argentina and Mercosur for Automobile Industry Suppliers," 1996.