Dave Markarian Email & Phone Number

United States

South Florida

The Markarian Group focuses on helping companies achieve maximum efficiency in the legal arena, avoiding legal exposure and expense. We provide what every business deserves: top notch legal advice and guidance through competitive headwinds, regulatory hurdles and legal challenges. We assess risk and identify steps to manage and eliminate it, avoiding significant future legal costs. We ensure that a company’s contracts and agreements protect its interests, and when necessary to enforce them, we provide efficient, high-quality in-court advocacy. We structure businesses in line with long-term strategic goals, and ensure consistency with an investor or business owner’s retirement, asset and wealth preservation planning.

Washington D.C. / Florida

Strategic governmental affairs policy planning and execution, guidance of regulatory and compliance efforts for competitive, regulated and technologies industries dedicated to supporting efficiency, innovation and conservation in industry.

David Markarian

Diverse responsibilities for this outstanding Fortune 200 company (from 2004 through 2013) ranging from internal management of corporate legal issues, litigation and regulatory issues across the country, to contract implementation and hands-on legal representation of the company in courtrooms and before regulatory authorities in a variety of venues, to serving as a corporate officer responsible for development and management of teams, corporate strategy and key policy and compliance initiatives.Range of responsibilities for NextEra / FP&L include serving as: ● Vice President, Government Relations, with responsibility for federal legislative advocacy and the company’s relationships with Congress, the White House and federal agencies, external lobbyists, trade groups and NGOs. ● Vice President, Governmental and Regulatory Affairs, with responsibility for state legal-regulatory affairs and governmental policy in 30 states outside the state of Florida. ● Senior and Managing Attorney, with responsibility for driving solutions and handling of a wide variety of corporate legal issues, including management of outside counsel and internal legal teams, and contract implementation, combined with hands-on courtroom, appellate and regulatory legal representation across the country involving a range of legal problems from commercial issues to injury claims.Key Accomplishments Include: ● $3 billion in anticipated investment preserved by securing extension of earned tax credit for wind energy and maintaining low rate of taxation of dividends in parity with capital gains; developing and implementing enhanced ethics and compliance program.● 100% growth of the company’s PAC. ● Ensured $1.7 billion in anticipated investment by leading teams to secure passage of 33% RPS in California; $1 billion in Canadian contracts. ● Achieved all desired governmental policy initiatives, and 100% success rate in all hands-on in-courtroom and regulatory representation from 2004-2013.

Heise Markarian Foreman P.A. merged with Boies, Schiller & Flexner in 2002, and my practice there focused upon protection of intellectual property, theft of trade secrets, securities and products liability litigation.

Regional litigation practice focused upon commercial, class action, products liability, catastrophic injury and wrongful death litigation at the trial court and appellate levels.

Regional litigation practice focused upon commercial, products liability, injury and wrongful death litigation at the trial court and appellate levels.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Political Science & History

Juris Doctorate, Law