Subject: The Latest from Madison
From: "Mike Signer" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:59:27 -0400

A new client, our financial regulation practice -- and a new project
promoting innovation and reform.

Dear Hunter:

I hope this finds you well.  This is a quick update on recent developments
at Madison and my own practice areas of energy, financial regulation, and
governance.  I'm glad to announce our client roster now includes [2]OPower.
OPower is a remarkable firm that works with utilities to help consumers
reduce their electricity use.  OPower has experienced tremendous growth,
creating 200 jobs in Northern Virginia, and the respected venture capital
firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers invested $50 million in OPower's
recent round of strategic financing.  President Obama recently visited
OPower's headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss clean energy
policy.  We'll be working with OPower on both advocacy and strategic
projects.  I urge you to familiarize yourself with this exciting company.
  Links:
    1. http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9612ef6f574ce228fcc681670&id=f89205f6bf&e=3b6c7f756c
    2. http://www.opower.com

In other news, we are expanding our financial regulation practice, and are
looking to take on one or two new clients in the coming year.  We counsel
insitutional and alternative investors on the risks and opportunities
presented by U.S. regulations regarding commodities, futures, derivatives,
swaps, broker-dealers, and high-frequency trading, with a special focus on
the 2010 Dodd-Frank Bill.  We also monitor the regulation of foreign
products of interest to U.S. investors.  We specifically tailor our guidance
to help clients in trading strategies.  Our deliverables include memoranda, 
research papers, conference calls, and presentations.  I'd greatly appreciate 
any referrals--please email me at [email-masked].

And in our governance work, we are working with the [3]Center for a New
American Security to develop a new project about the national security
implications of democracy promotion -- obviously a charged, highly relevant
topic, given recent developments in North Africa and the Middle East.
  Links:
    3. http://www.cnas.org

I also wanted to give you an update on a non-Madison-related matter.  As you
know, I remain very involved in public service and activism in Virginia.
Earlier this year, with the help of a steering committee including dozens of
leaders from around Virginia, I launched the [4]New Dominion Project (NDP),
a political action committee supporting innovation and reform in Virginia.
  Links:
    4. http://newdominionproject.com

One of our activities includes the promotion of "Featured Virginia Stories"
about Virginia entrepreneurs and companies whose narratives put a human face
on policy.  Examples include the stories of David Brown and [5]Edison2, a
green car company in Lynchburg that won a $5 million grant for inventing a
100 mpg car, [6]Pete Erickson and Disruptathon, an open innovation company
in McLean that works with hundreds of app companies, and [7]Brenda Robinson
and the Sustainability Park, which has created 200 jobs in Chester,
Virginia, on an old tobacco plant.
  Links:
    5. http://newdominionproject.com/2011/02/17/david-brown
    6. http://newdominionproject.com/2011/03/03/the-small-business-case-for-innovation-and-progress-in-virginia-the-story-of-pete-erickson
    7. http://newdominionproject.com/2011/04/05/the-business-of-sustainability

We're currently assembling a Business Advisory Council that will promote
innovation and progressive policy Virginia.  We are off to a good start with
business leaders in Arlington, Fairfax, and Charlottesville.  If you have
suggestions of folks who run Virginia-based businesses and might be
interested in being involved in NDP, or who could be subjects for our
Featured Virginia Stories, I'd greatly appreciate a connection. And, of
course, if you would like to support our political activities financially,
please make a donation [8]here.
  Links:
    8. https://secure.actblue.com/page/newdominionproject?refcode=website

Thanks very much for your support and friendship.  I look forward to staying
in touch.

Sincerely,

Mike

Michael Signer, Esq., Ph.D.
Managing Principal
Madison Law & Strategy Group, P.L.L.C.
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