BlackCastle Strategies Legal Practice

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 I work with entrepreneurs and management teams at emerging growth companies to build successful businesses. My clients benefit from my extensive legal and business experience as they build their companies. I also provide contacts with capital sources and expertise in negotiating and documenting seed and preferred stock rounds of capital formation.

I am very experienced in representing public and private companies in corporate securities and M&A transactions, bankruptcy and workouts, licensing, joint ventures and commercial agreements. I also have experience as a regulator having worked in the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. I also have entrepreneurial experience as the member of a management team in an emerging growth company and as an investor in such companies. My experience also includes managing commercial, employment, intellectual property and securities litigation for my clients.

I have advised companies in all aspects of compliance with the securities laws, including public and private securities offerings.

I have also represented companies in various types of mergers and acquisitions transactions. I have assisted clients in selling their businesses. These engagements include assisting clients in building a team for the transaction. I often assist clients in evaluating and retaining investment bankers and accounting firms. I participate with the client to organize the team in such a way that the company can respond to diligence requests and efficiently manage the transactional process. I have also represented buyers in the acquisition of businesses.

I have advised boards of directors on a wide variety of the corporate governance issues including mergers and acquisitions and internal investigations.