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Executive Associate:
Ken Morris

Location:
West Chester, PA

Experience:
Ken Morris, Esq. is a Philadelphia-based attorney serving the agrichemical, specialty
products, pharmaceutical and technology industries. With more than 30 years corporate and
law firm experience, he offers counsel to companies dealing with litigation and regulatory
matters, intellectual property issues, environmental compliance and dispute resolution,
mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and the establishment of business compliance
policies and training programs.

Morris is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chester County, Penn. Bar
Association, and is an associate and law member committee for RISE (Responsible Industry
for a Sound Environment). Morris is a frequent author and speaker on industry legal issues.
In addition, he is accredited as an Executive Associate by the Institute for Independent
Business (IIB/www.iib.org.ws). For several years he also contributed his time as an advisor
to the Women’s Business Development Center.

Previously, Morris served as corporate counsel to Bayer CropScience and its predecessor
companies for 24 years. He began his career in pharmaceutical and crop science law in
1981, when he became General Counsel and Secretary of the U.S. subsidiary of a
worldwide joint venture between British pharmaceutical companies Fisons, PLC
and Boots, PLC. That enterprise was acquired by Schering AG in 1983 and he continued
with responsibility for North America until 1994 when Schering and Hoechst AG formed
Hoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH, based in Berlin. As General Counsel and Secretary for
AgrEvo USA Company, Morris continued to manage a law department responsible for all
corporate legal affairs. In 2000, Schering and Hoechst joined Rhone Poulenc to form
Aventis SA. The global agrichemical and specialty businesses formed Aventis Crop
Science, which was acquired in 2002 by Bayer AG. Morris retired from Bayer in 2005.
For more than 20 years, Morris has served as a neutral arbitrator for the American
Arbitration Association and in 2006 was added to the panel of arbitrators for NASD. He has
also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate
School of Industrial Administration and as a Mediator for the U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as a board member of the Delaware Valley Chapter
of the American Corporate Counsel Association.

Education:
Morris earned his J.D. degree and an M.B.A. in International Business from George
Washington University, Wash., D.C., and a B.A. in History from Ohio Wesleyan University.
For more information, visit www.kenmorrislaw.com.

Contact:
Ken Morris, Esq.
Kenneth D. Morris, Esq. L.L.C.
1320 Vale Drive
West Chester, PA 19382
p. 484.607.8203
f. 610.793.4245
kdm@kenmorrislaw.com
Ken Morris Law