Education
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American University Washington College of Law, J.D., 1964
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Georgetown University, B.A., 1961
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Mario Mirabelli has in-depth experience in assisting clients on the national, international and local levels on matters involving corporate, securities and administrative issues. Mr. Mirabelli focuses on transactional, administrative, litigation and enforcement matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as public and private corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, trade regulation and banking matters.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Mirabelli served as a partner at Baker & Hostetler, where he represented domestic and international clients in a full range of general and federal securities law and corporate and transactional matters, including related privatizations; corporation formations, organization and maintenance; and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mirabelli advised issuers and underwriters related to public and private securities offerings; prepared periodic and other reports to the SEC, National Association of Securities Dealers and New York Stock Exchange on behalf of issuers, underwriters and insiders; helped clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts, and in investigations and inquires from various governmental agencies.
Mr. Mirabelli also served for fourteen years as managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Shea & Gould.
Previous to his work in the private sector, Mr. Mirabelli served as a trial attorney at the SEC in the Office of Administrative Proceedings and Investigations. At the SEC, he was responsible for examining the conduct of complex investigations involving possible civil or criminal violations of the Securities Act of 1933. Mr. Mirabelli was also responsible for the conduct of injunctive proceedings relating to the registration and reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Mr. Mirabelli also served as chief hearing counsel of the SEC’s public investigation into the “Propriety of Estimates, Forecasts and Projections of Economic Performance.” He was also chief trial counsel of the commission's public investigation of the “Hot Issues Securities Markets.”
As an attorney in the Bureau of Deceptive Practices of the Federal Trade Commission, Mr. Mirabelli worked on cases arising under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act involving unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce. He also was the lead attorney in charge of the commission's industry-wide project involving disclosure of non-tobacco ingredients in cigars.
Professional Affiliations:
American Bar Association
The John R. Mott Scholarship Foundation, Inc., president
The National Italian American Foundation, Inc., former director and treasurer
Guest Services, Inc., former chairman of the Board of Trustees
Atlantic Bank of New York, former director
Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, former member, Advisory Board
USO of Metropolitan Washington, former director
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