Marcus J. Lemon has over twelve years of experience, including extensive work in transportation, public-private partnerships (P3), infrastructure finance and regulation, corporate transactions, contracts, procurements, acquisitions, and government relations matters. His practice includes representation of national corporations, manufacturers, municipalities, infrastructure development entities, individuals, and businesses.

In December 2007, Marcus J. Lemon was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chief Counsel for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), as a member of the Senior Executive Service, where he managed over 60 staff and attorneys in seven regional offices. As Chief Counsel he was primarily counsel to senior staff at FHWA and DOT, coordinating with members of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, and representing FHWA before Congress, the private sector, the Executive Branch, and various state agencies. While at FHWA, Mr. Lemon was instrumental in the development of several national P3 and congestion reduction projects, including the Transportation Border Congestion Relief Program, Corridors of the Future, SEP-15 pilot commercialization of highways, the Fair Market Value Rule, and TIFIA Regulatory Streamlining, among others. He has also testified before state legislative bodies, as well as spoken and written on matters involving transportation, P3s, and congestion relief.

He is a 1992 graduate of Franklin & Marshall College, cum laude, with B.A. degrees in Government and English. He is a 1996 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, where he served on the Intellectual Property Moot Court Team. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the State of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Lemon served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Elizabeth R. Crum, Managing Justice of the Commonwealth Workers' Compensation Court. After his judicial clerkship, Mr. Lemon practiced corporate and finance, securities, and intellectual property law for nine years in private practice, including the Corporate Finance and Banking Groups at Reed Smith, LLP, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, LLP, and Mette, Evans & Woodside.

Mr. Lemon has extensive experience representing corporate, business, institutional, and individual clientele in matters of corporate, business, corporate and public finance, corporate formation and restructuring, securities, government relations, and technology law issues. His experience includes representation in matters of complex corporate, transactional, restructuring, securities, proxy, corporate control, e-commerce, and mergers and acquisitions issues, for Fortune 500 and publicly held enterprises. Mr. Lemon's experience also includes counseling early stage companies on formation, structure, securities regulations, capitalization, restructuring, private and public offerings, employment, intellectual property, and technology licensing issues. He has also counseled and represented banks and other financial institutions in various transactional and regulatory matters.

In 2002, Mr. Lemon went on leave from private practice after being appointed by the White House to serve as Special Assistant and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Defense, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, at the Pentagon. In his position, Mr. Lemon served as the primary assistant to the Inspector General for policy-making issues and as liaison to other senior officials of the DoD, White House, Congress, and the Executive Branch.

He also serves as a Major in the U.S. Army Reserves, Judge Advocate General Corps, and currently serves in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate for the Military Intelligence Readiness Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He has served in the military for eleven years, and has been awarded the Army Achievement Medal (with two Oak Leaf Clusters), having also graduated from the JAG Basic Course, JAG Advanced Course, and the prestigious Army Inspector General Basic Course. Mr. Lemon is a member of the Pennsylvania Society and is originally from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Lemon’s most recent publications include the following:

“Facilitating The Demand For P3 Transactions – The New Federal Highway Administration Office of Innovative Program Delivery”, ABA Transportation Committee Quarterly, Fall 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2.
“The Transportation Border Congestion Relief Program – Keeping America Moving At The Borders”, ABA Transportation Committee Quarterly, Fall 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Marcus J. Lemon
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