Mehrin ("Mir") Masud-Elias

Associate, Duane Morris, LLP

Mehrin (“Mir”) Masud-Elias practices in the area of corporate law with a concentration on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, strategic alliances, business law and finance and securities regulation and is a member of the firm's Recruitment and Retention Committee and acts as the ProBono Liaison for the Corporate Practice Group. Ms. Masud-Elias also counsels clients in corporate governance matters and licensing, supply, distribution and other technology-related commercial transactions. Prior to joining Duane Morris, she served as assistant deputy general counsel for Comcast Corporation.

Ms. Masud-Elias is a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Executive Committee of the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia. She is the former President of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, a nonprofit arts organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization. She is a frequent speaker on panels addressing professional development issues.

Ms. Masud-Elias is a 2001 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also studied Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH).

Professional Activities

  • Center for Emerging Visual Artists

    • - Secretary and Board Member, June 2009-present
  • Philadelphia Bar Association

    • - Board of Governors, 2009-present
  • Pennsylvania Biotechnology Association

    • - Member, Communications Track Subcommittee of Biotech 2008
  • South Asian Bar Association

    • - Treasurer and Board Member, Philadelphia Chapter
    - Member, Planning Committee for the National South Asian Bar Association's 2009 Convention
    - Former Board Member, Boston Chapter
  • TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) NJ-Philadelphia
  • DreamIt Ventures

    • - Counsel to startup company participant, 2009
  • Amherst College Alumni Club
  • Wharton Club of Philadelphia
  • The Network of Indian Professionals
  • Women Inventing Next

Education

  • Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 2001

    • - Articles Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review
    - Chair, Columbia Law Women's Association
  • Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1997

    • - Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP

    • - Associate, 2008-present
  • Comcast Corporation

    • - Assistant Deputy General Counsel, 2007-2008
  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

    • - Business and Finance Associate, 2006-2007
  • Goodwin Procter LLP

    • - Business Law Associate, 2001-2006

Board Memberships

  • Center for Emerging Visual Artists

    • - Board Member, June 2009-present
  • Philadelphia Bar Association

    • - Board of Governors, 2009-present
    - Member, Business Law Committee
    - Member, Private Equity and Venture Capital Law Subcommittee
  • South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia

    • - Board Member, 2008-present
  • Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

    • - Board President, 2002-2006

Honors and Awards

  • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  • Walter Minton Fellow
  • Phi Beta Kappa

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • Panelist, "Challenges Facing South Asian Women in Law," Drexel University, April 2008
  • Panelist, "Navigating Diversity in the Workplace," Harvard Law School, April 2006
  • Panelist, "Charting a Legal Career," Boston College Law School, October 2005