Mintz Levin Attorney Eddie Rodriguez Named Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmaker
7/10/2007
San Diego, CA - July 10, 2007 - Eddie Rodriguez, a Member in Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.'s San Diego office, has been named to Lawdragon's "500 Leading Dealmakers in America" list. According to Lawdragon, the 500 Leading Dealmakers in America list features the nation's top mergers and acquisitions, corporate and real estate dealmakers in the United States who have had the greatest recent impact on the legal world, representing less than one-half of one percent of the legal profession and placing them among the most elite group of legal professionals.
More than 5,000 attorneys were nominated for the Leading Dealmakers list by their peers and by the Lawdragon editorial staff. The Lawdragon 500 list highlights the practitioners that general counsel want on their side of the negotiating table. Selection for the list was based upon extensive research by a staff of award-winning journalists who interviewed thousands of lawyers nationwide, a survey of lawyers and general counsel who nominated and voted for their peers online, and a review of practice accomplishments.
Mr. Rodriguez is a member in the firm's San Diego office, practicing in the Business and Finance Section. His practice focuses on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formation, mergers and acquisitions, venture financing, technology licensing, and general business counseling. He has extensive experience with counseling public and private companies in the life science, telecommunications, software, hardware, e-commerce and information technology industries in a broad range of transactional matters. Mr. Rodriguez has represented clients in more than 200 mergers and acquisition transactions, investors and private companies in numerous private equity financings valued in excess of $200 million, and clients in numerous securities offerings. He was recently selected for the 2007 list of San Diego Super Lawyers. In 2006, he was included in Lawdragon's Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds, a guide that recognizes "the freshest faces in American law," and The Daily Transcript's "Transcript Ten," a list of San Diego's top attorneys across all practice areas. He was also named to The Daily Transcript's "Top Influential People" in San Diego in 2006.
He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He was the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law and the articles editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.
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