Attorneys' Biographies

Gregory S. Feis is the founder and the principal attorney. His biography is below.

In addition, Matthew C. Rampy is Of Counsel, working regularly with Greg. Matt's biography can be found here.

Gregory S. Feis

Law Firm Experience

Greg Feis is a business lawyer with over 26 years’ broad-based experience, more than 21 of which were with large national law firms. He has successfully led and handled a wide variety of sophisticated corporate and finance transactions for clients, ranging from major public companies to small, young and start-up companies, in diverse industries including energy, restaurants, retail shops, consulting, media, REITs, communications, services, aviation and aerospace, technology, software, manufacturing, trade shows, health sciences, and insurance. Please see the Prior Representations page for a listing of representative transactions and representations Greg has handled.

From 1997 until the launch of his own law office in early 2003, Greg was a partner with Shaw Pittman LLP, then a 400+ lawyer firm which is now part of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP - a 800+ attorney law firm with 14 offices around the world. Prior to that, he was an associate and then a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, DC (which is among the ten largest US law firms, with more than 1,400 lawyers in 22 offices). He began the practice of law in 1981 at a respected law firm in Los Angeles.

Education

Greg attended the School of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating in 1981. UCLA is one of the top-15 law schools in the country, and Greg was in the top 1/8 of his class and on Law Review there.

For his undergraduate work, Greg attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with his A.B. in 1978. He graduated with Highest Honors, and Distinction in General Scholarship, and was in the Honor Students Society from 1975 through 1978.

Legal and other Community Activities

Greg has an active role in the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, including serving on the Negotiated Acquisitions Committee of that Section. He was active on the Task Force on Asset Acquisitions, which drafted and published the ABA Model Asset Purchase Agreement, a resource distributed to lawyers throughout the country and abroad. He also recently co-authored the "Negotiated Acquisitions" handbook published by BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.).

Greg is admitted to practice by the DC Bar, the Maryland Bar, and the California Bar. Since 2004, Greg has served on the Board of Directors of the Washington, D.C. Division of the March of Dimes.

Martindale-Hubbell® Rating

Greg Feis is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell®. He is honored to have received the highest rating given by the leading independent attorney rating entity. Martindale-Hubbell® has maintained ratings for lawyers for more than a century, and currently reviews or assigns ratings for over 150,000 lawyers each year. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of other lawyers and judges, and attest to the individual lawyer’s legal ability and adherence to accepted professional standards of ethics. Exclusively developed and assigned by the Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory, ratings are considered valuable benchmarks intended for use by members of the profession.

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