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Legal Services - Attorney - Eli Mansour, Luce Forward

Luce Forward attorneys work closely with a broad spectrum of business clients to help them achieve their financial objectives. We work with business owners and managers in preparing and executing their strategic plans. This includes planning for the start-up and financing of new ventures, helping existing companies obtain equity and debt financing, both privately and in the public securities markets, and negotiating the acquisition and sale of businesses. Luce Forward provides across the board legal counsel to every type of business, from start-up ventures to closely held firms to publicly traded and multinational corporations headquartered in California, across the United States and in Mexico, Asia and Europe.

Eli Mansour is a partner with the law firm of Luce Forward and has a diverse transactional practice that includes intellectual property transactions and aviation matters.

Mr. Mansour has extensive experience in a wide range of intellectual property transactions with an emphasis on development, protection and licensing of pharmaceuticals, software, technology and related intellectual property. Mr. Mansour has represented clients in a variety of transactional intellectual property matters, including the drafting and negotiating of software, technology and pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, distribution and licensing agreements, drug and device discovery agreements, clinical trials, joint venture agreements, and technology assignment and transfer transactions. Mr. Mansour's past experience as an in-house .com attorney has given him vast exposure to and understanding of legal and business issues facing software start-ups and other technology businesses. Mr. Mansour has worked closely with several of his clients to complete transactions in the United States, India, the U.K., France, Italy and Brazil.

Mr. Mansour's practice also includes advising corporate flight departments and individuals seeking to acquire, lease or share in the use of turboprop and turbojet aircraft. Mr. Mansour has substantial experience in the negotiation and structuring of aircraft acquisition transactions, including ownership entity analysis, sales and use tax planning and documentation. Mr. Mansour currently serves as counsel to numerous fixed base and charter operators and has substantial exposure to aircraft operational issues under Parts 91 and 135. Mr. Mansour has represented aviation clients in the drafting and negotiating of aircraft purchase and sale agreements, management agreements, dry leases, time sharing agreements, joint ownership agreements and other transactional documents. Mr. Mansour also represents clients in the acquisition and roll-up of fixed base operators throughout the country.

Mr. Mansour's practice areas also include transactional matters and outside general counsel services for technology and other clients, mergers and acquisitions of technology and other companies, antitrust and unfair competition (with particular emphasis on representation in Hart-Scott-Rodino matters) as well as U.S. Export Control Laws and Anti-Terrorism Laws and their impact on technology and aviation transactions.

Contact: 
Eli W. Mansour 
emansour@luce.com 
Phone: 858.720.6336 
Fax: 858.523.4310

Public Relations

The Chempetitive Group is a national, full-service public relations and marketing firm focused solely on the global life sciences industry. Chempetitive develops strategic, cost-effective campaigns designed to sell more products and services. Chempetitive fuses life science industry experience with marketing communications services to offer a truly unique integrated marketing solution. The firm has offices in San Diego and Chicago. In Southern California, The Chempetitive Group serves companies like Illumina, Biomatrica and Optimer Pharmaceuticals. Nationally, TCG works with Dow, Sanyo and Fuji Film. The Chempetitive Group sells science to scientists -plain and simple, offering public relations; online, direct and event marketing; Web design, search engine optimization, pay-per-click services and advertising design.

For more information, please see www.chempetitive.com or contact: Ken Li - Public Relations Director, Telephone: 312 997 2436.

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