Mr. Meyer is a widely recognized leading international lawyer with a particular expertise in Southeast Europe, having engaged in a broad variety of sophisticated transactions throughout the region for over sixteen years, coupled with extensive experience in Western Europe and Israel. His primary focus is international joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, privatizations, and international arbitrations for major U.S., European and Israeli corporations engaged in manufacturing, energy, tourism, transportation, telecommunications, real estate development and capital-raising activities.
He is a member of the Panel of International Arbitrators of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution SM (ICDR), the international division of the American Arbitration Association , as well as the panel of the Romanian Court of International Commercial Arbitration in Bucharest. He is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Meyer is as an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City where he teaches “Transactions in Emerging Markets”.
He has been a special advisor for legal and economic matters to six European heads of state including the Presidents of Romania, the Republic of Moldova and the Republic of Montenegro. In 2004, the President of Romania conferred upon Mr. Meyer Romania’s National Order of Merit in the Rank of Commander. In 2006, the President of the Republic of Moldova bestowed upon Mr. Meyer the Republic of Moldova’s highest state decoration, the Medal of Civic Merit -“Meritul Civic".
Mark Meyer is the Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar, which authored an influential report on the violations of international law in Moldovan separatist enclave of Transdniestria. Mr. Meyer is also the Association's Official NGO Representative to the United Nation's Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva, and a member of its Council on International Affairs.
The former President of Romania, H. E. Emil Constantinescu, appointed Mr. Meyer in May 1999 as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Improvement of the Business Environment in Romania. The Commission, which included representatives of the Government, Parliament, labor and the business community, held public hearings throughout the country and presented a comprehensive report to the President which contained numerous recommendations that have since been enacted into law. Mr. Meyer has been Chairman of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest bilateral trade organization in the world devoted to Romania, since 1990.
In 2004, Mr. Meyer was named a Harvard Law School Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus. Mr. Meyer has received the Libertatea Award as one of the ten most significant persons in the world to Romania.He is the recipient of Fairleigh Dickinson University's Pinnacle Award, its highest honor for distinguished alumni. Mr. Meyer is also Vice President of the Congress of Romanian-Americans (the only non-Romanian-American officer of the Congress), and the author of numerous articles in international publications on a wide variety of legal issues. Mr. Meyer lectures widely throughout the United States and Europe on legal aspects of doing business in the region. He is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, St. John's University, and Harvard Law School.
Mr. Meyer is a member of both Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., and Rubin Meyer Doru & Trandafir, spca, and he is admitted to the New York Bar and the Bucharest Bar. He holds Martindale-Hubbell’shighest legal ability rating of "AV" (Very High to Preeminent) and is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in American Law.
