Howard L. Meyers

Partner

Howard L. Meyers is the manager of Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice in Philadelphia. Mr. Meyers has experience in all aspects of corporate finance, including traditional debt and equity securities; securities law compliance for public companies; mergers and acquisitions of public and privately held companies; bank financings; partnership law, including public master limited partnerships and private syndications; and emerging businesses and venture capital. In addition, Mr. Meyers advises clients on corporate governance issues and has acted as special counsel to independent board committees and provides counsel to several not-for-profit corporations.

Mr. Meyers has particular experience in the energy and public utility industries. For more than 30 years, he has worked with regulated electric, gas, and water utilities and interstate common carriers in a variety of transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, securities offerings and general corporate representations.

He has also worked closely with oil pipelines, oil and gas drilling companies, and propane distribution businesses. In addition to traditional corporate structures, Mr. Meyers is familiar with publicly held master limited partnerships and has represented such entities in a variety of transactions.

From 1994 through 1996, Mr. Meyers served a three-year term as the firm managing partner of Morgan Lewis, a position essentially equivalent to the chief operating officer, and from 2000 to 2006 he served as the Philadelphia office managing partner. He is currently chairman of the firm's Finance Committee.

Mr. Meyers speaks regularly on corporate governance issues, primarily at the periodic KPMG Audit Committee Roundtable held in Philadelphia.

Mr. Meyers is general counsel and a member of the Executive Committee of the board of directors of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce; chairman of the Committee of Seventy; a member of the Council of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and former chairman of its Flower Show Executive Committee; a director of the William Penn Foundation; and a director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Meyers is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Meyers and his wife, Barbara, have three sons and reside in St. Davids, Pennsylvania.