Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsLa-Verna Fountain currently serves as the Vice President for Construction Business Services and Communications at Columbia University in the City of New York. As Vice President, Ms. Fountain helps lead the Universitys outreach and communications efforts regarding construction business opportunities and activities. She helps lead the Corporate Alliance Program/Columbia University joint Certificate Mentorship program for Minority, Women and Locally-owned construction-trades businesses.Ms. Fountain served as part of the Universitys negotiation team on two of the Universitys top construction initiatives - the planned Manhattanville campus and Bakerfield/Boathouse Marsh project at the Campbell Athletics Complex. Prior to assuming her role in Facilities, Ms. Fountain served as the Associate Vice President of Public Affairs where she served as the Chief Operating Officer of Columbias Office of Communications and Public Affairs and as the public affairs liaison on the Universitys expansion project, working closely with media, government officials and community members.In addition to her work at the University, Ms. Fountain if President and founder of the Defiant Hope Consulting and Training Company. For the past 25 years, she has provided motivational speeches, training and facilitation on topics of conflict resolution, cultural diversity/human awareness, nonviolence as a way of life, working with teenagers, spirituality in the workplace, staff development and organizational development.
Rebekah Scheinfeld is the Chief Planning Officer and Senior Vice President at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Rebekah is responsible for the CTAs strategic planning for major capital projects and new transit service, business development partnerships with the private sector, and the agencys federal, state and local capital grants program. Before joining the CTA, Rebekah was an attorney at the law firm of Mayer Brown, where she focused on state and local government law, representing public and private sector clients in a variety of transactional, legislative and regulatory matters including zoning and land use changes, design and construction of major public projects, and public-private partnerships for infrastructure assets. Previously, Rebekah also worked for East Lake Management & Development Corp. as a Senior Development Manager of mixed-income housing and for the Commissioner of the New York City Parks Department as Director of Government Relations and Operations Coordinator for operations, planning and capital projects. Rebekah received her BA in Urban Studies from Brown University and both her JD and MBA from Northwestern University.
Mary Glancey has 18 years of securities industry experience including nearly 15 years in the Compliance Department at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. Ms. Glancey began her career at Janney as a branch examiner and became the manager of private client (formerly retail) compliance upon graduating from law school in 2003.In 2008 Ms. Glancey moved into the newly formed capital markets compliance department as the manager of fixed income compliance. In this role, Ms. Glancey is responsible for oversight of the taxable sales and trading, municipal sales, trading and underwriting and public finance departments.Ms. Glancey earned a BS from St. Joseph's University and JD from Widener University School of Law. Mary has the series 7, 63, 9/10, 14 and 53 licenses and is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Andrew Southerling is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s national securities enforcement and litigation practice.��He represents financial services firms, public companies, boards of directors, and individuals in US Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Justice enforcement investigations, and other regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings.��Andrew also conducts internal investigations on behalf of corporate management and boards of directors. Andrew joined Morgan Lewis after a six-year tenure at the SEC in the Division of Enforcement.
Eric is a member of the Financial Industry Group, practicing in the area of Commercial Restructuring & Bankruptcy. He has represented secured and unsecured creditors in major bankruptcy cases and non-judicial restructurings involving manufacturing enterprises, hospitals, retailers, utilities, airlines, real estate projects, and other businesses. In addition to representing the Creditors' Committees of USGen New England and LTV Steel, and representing PTC Alliance as debtor's counsel, Eric has had a significant role in restructuring obligations of the West Penn Allegheny Health System and Branson Airport; in the bankruptcy cases of Lehman Brothers, VeraSun, Weirton Steel, Solutia, Property Development Group, Pittsburgh Hockey Associates, USAirways, Anker Coal, Campo Electronics, Revco D.S., Inc., East Cameron Gas, Forum Health, Anchorage Sportsplex, and McCrory Parent Company; in the procedure de sauvegarde of Global Automotive Logistics; and in the receivership cases of St. Francis Health System, Devon Capital Management, The Harrisburg Authority, and Total Waste Ltd.He has negotiated plans of reorganization, postpetition credit facilities, and asset sales, and he has handled bankruptcy litigation involving lien priority disputes, avoidance action, pension benefits, and equitable subordination. In addition, Eric has substantial experience dealing with the treatment of trademarks and other intellectual property in such bankruptcy cases as Boston Market, Inc. and Agripac, Inc. Eric also has represented creditors in non-bankruptcy litigation involving secured transactions, foreclosures and receiverships, lender liability claims, and other commercial issues. Education: J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1979, Order of the Coif Post-graduate studies in chemical engineering B.A., Government and Foreign Affairs, high honors, University of Virginia, 1976, Phi Betta Kappa



