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John McShane was named executive vice president and general counsel of Global Crossing in March 2002 and he became a director of Global Crossing UK in June 2005. As general counsel Mr. McShane oversees and manages all of our legal matters. Prior to his appointment as general counsel Mr. McShane joined Global Crossing in February 1999 as our European assistant general counsel where he led the negotiations of network infrastructure agreements for the build-out of the Pan European Crossing (PEC) network.
As assistant general counsel he also had responsibility for the oversight of worldwide sales and telecommunications network outsourcing transactions for Global Crossing's Solutions business unit and of major vendor supply agreements.
Prior to joining Global Crossing Mr. McShane spent twelve years at several international law firms including positions as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett from 1987 through 1996 and as senior counsel at Shearman and Sterling Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Brown & Wood where his main focus was on representing major commercial banks financial institutions and corporations in connection with a broad range of their corporate commercial and financing activities.
Mr. McShane holds a J.D. Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College. He is admitted to the New York State Bar. | 