Kevin Pomfret Joins LeClairRyan

18 February 2010, 10:18am

RICHMOND, Va. – Kevin D. Pomfret has joined LeClairRyan as a partner in the intellectual property, corporate service and venture capital practices to help develop the firm’s spatial law capabilities. Prior to joining LeClairRyan, Pomfret was a partner at Cantor Arkema in Richmond, Va. He will be resident in the firm’s Richmond, Va. office.

Pomfret’s practice includes representing a number of spatial technology companies. He also counsels on matters related to the development of national spatial data infrastructures. In addition he works closely with leaders in the spatial community to identify solutions to the industry’s unique legal issues. He serves as the Executive Director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy and is on the board of directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium. He speaks regularly on these matters in the U.S. and abroad and has written on legal and policy matters related to the collection, use and sharing of spatial data for a number of publications.

Prior to attending law school, he worked on developing the U.S. Intelligence community’s imagery collection and exploitation requirements. Pomfret also served as a satellite imagery analyst and a Soviet analyst for the U.S. government.

He also has a significant corporate and venture capital practice, in which he handles matters including transactions, equity and debt financings, licensing agreements, joint ventures, employment agreements and a number of related business issues. He has negotiated numerous mergers and acquisitions for both public and private companies and has assisted private equity funds and venture capital funds in making investments and acquisitions.

He has been recognized as a Virginia “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics magazine and as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business magazine. He is a graduate of Washington & Lee University School of Law (J.D.) and Bates College (B.A.) and is admitted to practice in Virginia.

About LeClair Ryan

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