Marilyn Mooney is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., a law firm with almost 900 attorneys and 17 offices worldwide. She heads the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions practice and is the Partner-in-Charge of the Corporate and Securities practice in Fulbright's Washington office. Marilyn serves on several firm-wide committees, including the Internal Audit Committee, the Audit Response Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

For over 25 years she has engaged in a wide-ranging corporate and securities practice typically for major multinational companies. Marilyn is known for running complex worldwide acquisitions, often in regulated industries. Her transactional practice includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, tender and exchange offers, purchases and sales of assets and securities, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, and counseling Boards of Directors and Special Committees in regard to proposed transactions. She led the firm's team with respect to a transaction that received the 2010 Deal of Distinction Award in the Life Sciences Sector from the Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Inc.

Her corporate practice includes counseling on corporate governance issues and negotiating corporate governance structures in joint ventures and partnering arrangements. Her SEC and corporate compliance practice includes the preparation and filing of registration statements, annual and periodic reports, and proxy statements, counseling on disclosure issues such as environmental matters, as well as the negotiation of accounting and auditor independence issues on behalf of domestic and foreign issuers with the Office of Chief Accountant. She also handles listing issues for securities traded on the New York Stock Exchange and The Nasdaq Stock Market.

Before coming to the Firm, Marilyn practiced at DuPont for over 9 years where she worked in one of the country's largest corporate legal departments. She was a member of DuPont's acquisition team for the then largest takeover battle in U.S. history, the acquisition of Conoco, Inc. She also represented DuPont in multi-billion dollar U.S. public debt issues and commercial paper and private placement programs and in the preparation of SEC registration statements, periodic reports and proxy statements.

• International Bar Association
  • Business Law Section
• American Bar Association
  • Federal Regulation of Securities Committee
• Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
  • Securities Law Committee
• District of Columbia Bar
  • Corporation, Finance and Securities Law Section
  • International Section
• Massachusetts Bar
• Pennsylvania Bar
• Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Bar of the District and Circuit Courts of the District of Columbia

• Chambers USA: Corporate/M&A and Private Equity
• Best Lawyers in America: Corporate Law
• "Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer," Mergers and Acquisitions, Law & Politics
• Leading Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 3000
• "Legal Elite," SmartCEO magazine
• Who's Who in American Law
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in the World
• Who's Who of American Women

• Co-author, "Corporate Governance At-A-Glance," Fulbright Client Newsletter, January 9, 2009
• "SEC Revisits Disclosure of Oil and Gas Reserves," Fulbright Client Alert, December 14, 2007
• "Inside Job: The SEC is Turning the Spotlight on Pre-M&A Insider Trading," CCCA magazine, Fall 2007
• "M&A Trend Report: Midmarket M&A Continues to be Strong and Steady," Corporate Board Member magazine interview, July/August 2007
• "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Settlements Emphasize the Importance of Due Diligence in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions," Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, May/June 2007
• "M&A Trend Report: Health Care and Life Sciences," Corporate Board Member magazine interview, January/February 2007
• "Amendments to SEC Best Price Rules," Insights, The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, December 2006
• "SEC Adopts Revised Rules on Auditor Independence," Fulbright Client Alert, February 2003
• "Auditor Independence: A Compliance Checklist on Performance of Services by Accounting Firms," Fulbright Client Alert, October 2003
• "Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, SEC Open Meeting," Fulbright Client Alert, August 27, 2002
• "Electronic Disclosure: The Challenge of Electronic Media: Interim Guidance from the SEC," Insights, The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, June 2000

• Co-panelist, "Are You Ready for Your Upcoming Audit Committee Meetings?" Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association Corporate and Securities Forum, McLean, Virginia, January 4, 2012
• Co-panelist, "Evolving Best Practices for Audit Committees," Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 23, 2011
• Moderator, "M&A in 2010 - Negotiating Trends in Private Company M&A Transactions," Fulbright Web Seminar, March 31, 2010
• Co-panelist, "Keys to Successful M&A Due Diligence," Fulbright Web Seminar, December 1, 2009
• Co-panelist, "Crisis Management - Taking the Lead," Essentials:  The Basics of Corporate Governance and Beyond, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Orlando, Florida, January 31, 2008 
• Co-panelist, "Basic Challenges When Dealing with the Regulators," Essentials:  The Basics of Corporate Governance and Beyond, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Orlando, Florida, January 30, 2008
• Co-panelist, "Developing and Managing an Effective Organisation," Fifth General Counsel Roundtable, sponsored by The Economist and Corporate Board Member magazine, New York, New York, December 6, 2007
• Co-panelist, "Special Committees of the Board," The C-Suite and Board Series Mergers and Acquisitions Forum, sponsored by The Economist and Corporate Board Member magazine, New York, New York, November 8, 2007
• Moderator, "Audit Committee Practices Roundtable:  Asking Inconvenient Questions," Energy Industry Directors Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 10, 2007
• Co-panelist, "Dealing with Section 404 and Certification," Essentials: Critical Lessons for Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and Their Staff, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2007
• Co-panelist, "Disclosure Issues," Essentials: Critical Lessons for Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and Their Staff, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Orlando, Florida, January 25, 2007
• "The Implications of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Mergers and Acquisitions Due Diligence," Energy Investments in the Middle East: Legal and Practical Guidelines for the Use of Agents, Partners and Sponsors in the Middle East, London, England, May 16, 2006
• "Update on Duties of Directors," SEC Disclosure, Accounting & Enforcement Conference, New York, New York, May 23, 2005

1976 - J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School
1973 - B.A., summa cum laude, History, University of Pennsylvania

As part of her undergraduate education, Marilyn spent a year studying at the Goethe Institute in Prien-am-Chiemsee, Germany, and attending the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria.

Marilyn's community involvement includes multiple "firsts":

• Served as first-ever Chair, Fulbright & Jaworski's D.C. Office Pro Bono Committee. This committee plays a vital role in Fulbright's commitment to providing quality legal services to the poor. In 2003 Fulbright lawyers donated approximately 40,000 hours of free legal services to the nation's underserved.
• Serves as Fulbright's representative to The Greater Washington Board of Trade, which is the largest regional network of business and non-profit leaders and the only group representing all industry sectors. The Board of Trade's 1,200 member companies in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland employ 40 percent of the region's private-sector workforce.
• Served as Fulbright's Washington, D.C. representative to the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, for over 30 years has represented both individuals and groups seeking to vindicate their civil rights. It has handled over 5,000 civil rights cases, in employment, housing, public accommodations, and other aspects of urban life.