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Mr. Drzal is a shareholder in the Firm’s Corporate Group and serves as Chair of the Technology and Venture Capital team. He focuses his practice on and customarily acts as lead counsel in connection with financings, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, joint ventures, management buyouts, intellectual property licensing transactions and a variety of domestic and international transactions. Mr. Drzal currently serves as general counsel to a number of emerging technology companies, including medical information technology, medical device, bioinformatics, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, internet, digital signage, and high-tech research and development, manufacturing and distribution companies. He also serves as general counsel to a growing angel investor network with chapters in Charlottesville and Blacksburg, Virginia and has served on the board of directors of client companies. Legal Experience: LeClairRyan, Charlottesville and Blacksburg, Virginia, 1993 - present Thompson & McMullan, Richmond, Virginia, 1989 - 1993 Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Virginia, 1986 - 1989 Education Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1979 University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland Providence College, B.A., English, 1972 Extended InformationRepresentative MattersRepresented Pinnacle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in connection with sale of substantially all of its capital stock in May of 2007 Represented Panaphase Technologies, LLC in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets in April of 2007Represented Medical Automation Systems, Inc. in connection with the renegotiation of its strategic alliance with Roche Diagnostics Corporation in April of 200Represented Synchrony, Inc. in connection with a $5,000,000 Series A financing round in February of 2006Represented the management team of the Engineered Films Group of PolyOne Corporation in connection with a management buyout in February of 2005Speaking Engagements Lectured on technology business issues at Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technologies, the Darden School, Virginia Commonwealth University and at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.Panelist for University of Virginia's 2008 lecture series on Energy, topic "The Business of Green Energy: Opportunities and Technology Options" | 