Portland-based Tonkon Torp elects board members

Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR), Aug 1, 2006 by DJC Staff

The partners of Tonkon Torp LLP have elected Michael M. Morgan to head the firm's managing board.

Also elected to the board were Kenneth D. Stephens, Ronald L. Greenman and Kurt W. Ruttum. They join Darcy M. Norville, who was elected in 2005.

Morgan is a senior partner in the firm's Energy, Telecommunications and Regulated Industries Practice Group. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago School of Law in 1972.

Stephens, a founding partner of Tonkon Torp, specializes in corporate and securities matters and has experience in debt and equity financings, take-over contests and secondary securities markets. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law.

Greenman's business law practice focuses on securities, finance and corporate acquisitions, and counseling growing companies. A 1974 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law, Greenman was recognized as one of the best lawyers in the United States by Chambers USA, a business law research group.

Ruttum's practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings and general corporate counseling. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law.