Bryan Cave Partner Elected to GPEC Executive Committee and Board of Directors

Sept. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Bryan Cave Partner Neil Irwin has been elected as Treasurer of Greater Phoenix Economic Council (“GPEC”) and also elected as a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors for the fiscal year 2011-2012. This will be the third year that Irwin has served as Treasurer. He has been a member of GPEC’s Executive Committee and Board for seven years and served as Chairman during one of those years.

A true public/private partnership, GPEC is the regional economic development organization for Greater Phoenix. Working with its 20 member communities, Maricopa County and more than 140 private investors, GPEC attracts quality businesses to this dynamic region. Since 1989, GPEC has worked to achieve an economically sound and sustainable region.

For more than 35 years, Irwin has practiced business law with a special emphasis on transactional matters for many private and public companies. He currently represents both companies as well as high net worth individuals in a variety of activities ranging from the purchase and sale of assets and businesses to managing litigation in multiple jurisdictions. Representative clients include public companies involved with vehicle rentals, health care, alternative energy and technology; private companies involved in various entrepreneurial endeavors including real estate projects, and many other diverse business interests.

Bryan Cave LLP (www.bryancave.com) has a diversified international legal practice. The firm represents a wide variety of business, financial, institutional and individual clients, including publicly held multinational corporations, large and mid-sized privately held companies, partnerships and emerging companies. Subsidiaries Bryan Cave International Trade and Bryan Cave Strategies provide trade and customs consultancy and government relations and strategic counsel, respectively. Aided by extensive investments in technology, Bryan Cave’s more than 1,000 lawyers and other professionals in 25 offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia efficiently serve clients’ needs in the world's leading business and financial markets.

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With more than 1,000 lawyers in 25 offices, Bryan Cave has a diversified international legal practice representing a wide variety of business, financial, institutional and individual clients.