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M. Richard Cutler has practiced in the general corporate and securities area and international business transactions since his graduation from law school. Mr. Cutler is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981); and Columbia University School of Law (J.D. 1984). Mr. Cutler was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1984 and the State Bar of California in 1990.

After law school, Mr. Cutler joined Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue where he practiced in the corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions departments. Mr. Cutler subsequently spent five years in the corporate and securities department in the Dallas office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. After moving to the west coast, Mr. Cutler was with the Los Angeles office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hayes & Handler, a New York based law firm, where he continued his corporate securities practice. In 1991, Mr. Cutler founded the law firm of Horwitz, Cutler & Beam in Anaheim California, a general practice firm, where he managed the corporate and securities practice for five years.