Lunch and Individual Advising Sessions with Muriel Makharine (BU Law ’90), United Technologies – Carrier Corporation, V.P. of Legal Affairs, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Transicold and Taylor

Are you interested in international mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, or corporate governance? Do you hope your career leads you to a position with a corporation’s in-house legal department or in the technology industry? Does your ideal job give you the breadth to work on complex litigation while also structuring cross-border transactions and developing favorable multi-national tax structures? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you cannot miss a lunch discussion with Muriel Makharine. Muriel’s more than 20-year career started when she practiced bankruptcy and commercial finance law with a large firm in Connecticut and has continued to prosper with United Technologies – Carrier Corporation, which she joined in 1994 as a Legal Counsel in their Paris office. Since then, Muriel has been involved in mergers, acquisitions, and other business ventures with entities across the world. Now based in Connecticut, Muriel’s role at United Technologies has spanned a variety of roles, from Executive Assistant to the Carrier President to Vice President of a variety of commercial units and international regions. United Technologies Corporation is a Hartford, Connecticut-based provider of a broad range of high-technology products and services to the aerospace and building systems industries worldwide ($58 billion revenues in 2008). Carrier is the world’s largest provider of heating, air conditioning and refrigeration solutions. With revenues of approximately $15 billion in 2008, Carrier has 41,000 employees worldwide and operations in 170 countries.