Mary J. Mullany

Business and Finance, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Financial Institutions Reform, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Insurance, Life Sciences/Technology, Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity, Securities

Mary J. Mullany is a partner in the Business and Finance Department and a member of the Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Life Sciences/Technology, Health Care, and Insurance Groups, and Health Care Reform Initiative, as well as the Financial Institutions Reform Task Force. 

Ms. Mullany concentrates her practice in the areas of securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing (public and private), executive compensation, corporate governance, pharmaceutical and life sciences licensing and collaborations, general corporate law, business counseling, and health care law. Her client base includes large, multinational public companies, public and private regionally based companies in a variety of industries, insurance holding companies, life science companies, and start-up entities.

Ms. Mullany has worked most recently on sophisticated merger and acquisition transactions for publicly traded companies, and on restructuring and financing transactions for clients in the medical management and technology sectors. She counsels public and private companies in the areas of corporate governance, disclosure obligations, executive compensation, and financing alternatives. Much of Ms. Mullany's work with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life science companies focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and other corporate financing, and on licensing agreements, including collaborations and joint ventures.

Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Mullany was a registered nurse with experience in critical care and risk management.

Pro Bono Experience

Ms. Mullany works with pro bono corporate clients in the areas of contracting and corporate governance requirements.

Publications

Co-author, "2009 Annual Disclosure Documents," The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 42, No. 5, March 4, 2009

Co-author, "Revisions to Rule 144 - The SEC Makes Improvements to the Resale Safe Harbor," Inside the Minds, Analyzing Rule 144 Revisions, 2008

Co-author, "Executive Compensation Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008," Pension & Benefits Reporter, Vol. 35, No. 44, November 4, 2008

Speaking Engagements

Frequent speaker in legal education courses, most recently including Practising Law Institute's Annual Disclosure Documents 2009 in Jan. 2009, a Pennsylvania Bar Institute course on private placements in Feb. 2009, and a teleconference on share-based compensation in March 2009

"The SEC and the Smaller Reporting Company," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Business Lawyers' Institute, November 2008

"Private Placements Essentials: New Rules for 2008," National Constitution Center audio conference, March 2008

Planner and speaker, "Private Placement of Securities," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, February 2008 (annual presentation given since 2001)

"Annual Disclosure Documents–2008," Practising Law Institute, January 2008 (also participated in 2007 program as speaker)

Board Memberships

WIN, a local organization for women entrepreneurs and women who support them

Vice Chair, Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, an education and resource company for immigrants

Kardon Institute for Arts Therapy, a nonprofit provider of music, dance, and arts therapy to the physically and mentally disabled (also Finance Committee member)

Villanova University School of Law (J.D. 1993, magna cum laude)
Articles Editor, Villanova Law Review; Member, Order of the Coif

Widener University (M.S.N. 1988)

University of Pennsylvania (B.S.N. 1979)

Pennsylvania 1994