Karen Muller

Introduction

Ms. Muller has provided corporate legal service to clients in the healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical device industries, as a sole practitioner. She has served on other boards of public and private companies and has over 25 years experience working the investment banking and financial services industry, in a variety of capacities. She has been involved in numerous corporate finance transactions including public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged acquisitions and corporate reorganizations totaling, as both counsel and as a company executive. Ms. Muller served as Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Orange County based Epoch Networks, Inc., one of the earliest ISPs. Prior to joining Epoch, Ms. Muller was a Managing Director with Lehman Brothers from 1988 to 1999. Ms. Muller headed the corporate counsel department, handling all corporate legal affairs, including board and shareholder matters, public filings, corporate finance, compensation and benefits and numerous M&A transactions. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Ms. Muller was an associate at the Wall Street law firm Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, where she worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions. Ms. Muller graduated Fordham Law School in 1981, where she was a published member of the law review. She graduated Hunter College of the City University of New York with a B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, while working full time in the real estate industry in Manhattan.