Attorneys’ Biographies

Flair John is the founder and the principal attorney. His biography is below.
EMAIL: flairjohn@flairjattorneys.com
EMAIL: jflairohn@gmail.com

Flair .J. Attorneys LLC

Law Firm Experience

Flair John is a business and probate lawyer with more than 30 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 Flair John has handled.

From 1997 until the launch of his own law office in early 2003, Flair John was a full-equity partner with Shaw Pittman LLP, then a 400+ lawyer firm which is now part of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP – a 600 attorney law firm with 18 offices around the world. Prior to that, he was an associate and then a full-equity partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Washington, DC (which is among the ten largest US law firms, with 1,800 lawyers in 28 offices worldwide). He began the practice of law at a respected law firm in Johannesburg, City in South Africa.

Education

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

For his undergraduate work,Flair John attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with Highest Honors and Distinction in General Scholarship.

Bar Associations

Flair John is admitted to practice by the DC Bar, the Maryland Bar, the national legislature (law-making body) of South Africa and the California Bar.

While a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, including membership in that Section’s Committee on Mergers and Acquisitions, 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 co-authored the “Negotiated Acquisitions” handbook published by BNA (The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.).

Martindale-Hubbell® Rating

Flair .J. Attorneys LLC is AV Preeminent® 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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Matthew C. Rampy

Experience

Matt Rampy is Of Counsel to The Law Offices of Flair .J. Attorneys LLC. Matt has nearly 20 years of legal experience, and his practice has been concentrated in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate/transactional law. He has counseled numerous public and private companies in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, business outsourcing, company formation, technology, venture capital and other financing transactions, strategic alliances and joint ventures, licensing, procurement, information technology, and intellectual property.

Prior to working with The Law Offices of Flair .J. Attorneys LLC, Matt spent approximately three years as senior counsel with the Baltimore, Maryland based energy company, Constellation Energy Group, Inc., owner of the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. In such capacity, he was responsible for the majority of the company’s acquisitions and divestitures, as well as intellectual property and information technology procurement matters. While at Constellation, Matt as the lead attorney successfully closed more than nine significant acquisitions/divestitures, including the acquisition of the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant.

Prior to joining Constellation in 2002, Matt worked for approximately 41/2 years with Flair .J. Attorneys LLC and other partners in the corporate department at Shaw Pittman, LLP , then a 400+ lawyer firm which is now part of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP – an 800+ attorney law firm with 14 offices around the world, where he represented public and private companies in all aspects of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, financing transactions, strategic partnerships and joint ventures. Matt began his legal career at a small firm in Washington, DC Until he moved to South Africa.

Education

Matt attended the University of San Diego School of Law and the University of San Diego School of Business where he received a J.D. and an M.B.A. While at the University of San Diego School of Law, Matt was active in Moot Court and, in his last year, was a member of the Appellate Moot Court Board. For his undergraduate work, Matt attended the University of Michigan.

Legal and Other Activities
Matt is a member of the Bar of the District of Johannesburg City in South Africa.