Gueter Aurelien

Representative Matters

• Represented a private investment company in its acquisition of a gas utility and construction materials company in a stock purchase transaction
• Maryland counsel to a pharmaceutical company in debt and equity financing transactions
• Represented a REIT in a $65 million follow-on underwritten public offering of common stock
• Represented a Maryland manufacturer in a sale by reverse triangular merger to a private equity firm
• Represented a community development entity in a financing transaction of $13.5 million in federal New Markets Tax Credit and $6.4 million in Florida New Markets Tax Credit to a qualified low income community business to acquire and develop a social service facility located in Miami, Florida
• Represented a project management and consulting firm in its acquisition of an operations management services company in a transaction involving a rollover equity investment and debt financing
• Represented clients, including Maryland municipalities, in a variety of complex refinancing transactions, including tax-exempt financing and current refundings

Education

• J.D. magna cum laude University of Miami School of Law 2013
• • Member, University of Miami Psychology, Public Policy & Law Journal
  • Representative, University of Miami School of Law Immigration Clinic
  • Co-author, Amicus brief filed before the Florida Supreme Court
  • Lloyd M. Johnson, Jr. Scholar, Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)
  • Microsoft 1L Scholar, Legal Council on Legal Diversity
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Business Associations and Caribbean Law
• M.A. Forensic Accounting Florida Atlantic University 2010
• • Phi Kappa Phi
• B.A. Columbia University 1999
• • Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Bar Admissions

• Maryland
• District of Columbia

Court Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Former contributor, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

• Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Rising Star, 2022
• The Daily Record, Generation J.D., 2022
• Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Maryland, 2021 – 2022
• The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, 2021 – 2023     
• The National Black Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40

Volunteerism

• Former member, Board, Boys Hope Girls Hope of Baltimore - a nonprofit that helps academically capable and motivated children-in-need meet their full potential by providing value-centered, family-like homes, opportunities and education through college