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The National Venture Capital Association (“ NVCA”) has recently (but without any fanfare) released substantively important revisions to its model legal documents, specifically, the Investor Rights Agreement, the Stock Purchase Agreement, and the Certificate of Incorporation. These changes address...
You owe it to yourself, your family, your colleagues and your clients to think about and plan for practice succession. Even if you have no plans to change what you’re doing now, eventually you will have to consider your future. And as with many things, planning ahead gives you the best chance at...
Kermit Nash will be participating in the Global Business Connections Conference 2024 being held in West Fargo, North Dakota on May 15th. He will be the moderator of a three-person panel during the afternoon's Global Agility Panel Discussion. This Conference is being hosted by the North Dakota Trade...
![Laurie A. Kamaiko](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Kamaiko_Laurie_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=IVYWSuNu)
Laurie Kamaiko advises clients on emerging and complex risks associated with cybersecurity and privacy incidents and the rapidly developing legal landscape. She helps them limit their exposure to such risks and respond to incidents and related litigation. Laurie has extensive experience in...
![Caroline Patterson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2024-02/Patterson_Caroline_LinkedIn.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=uBXv3MWN)
Caroline Patterson brings more than 25 years of legal experience to her work representing practices and professionals in the health care industry in a variety of transactional, corporate, and regulatory matters. Her experience ranges from providing counsel in mergers, acquisitions, sales and private...
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Pia Aklian is a corporate and transactional attorney who advises clients ranging from emerging businesses to multinational, public companies across various industries including technology, software, manufacturing, life sciences and health care. Pia advises clients on a broad range of matters that...
![Franklin Zemel](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Zemel_Franklin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=0afe7b08&itok=nsipKc8f)
Franklin Zemel focuses on cybersecurity and privacy law, First Amendment and civil rights litigation, complex business litigation, and appellate law. Franklin represents large and small businesses, manufacturers, and religious entities in South Florida and has several significant reported cases.
![Andrew J. Daly](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Daly_Andy_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=om3VY4oF)
Andy Daly advises employers, including employee-owned companies, on legal issues connected with employee benefits. He focuses in particular on matters involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), including: Handling ESOP transactions. Assisting with plan design. Evaluating feasibility issues...
![Mary Harmon](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-05/Harmon_Mary_LinkedIn.jpg?h=7126a54b&itok=hOHwn_Nn)
Mary Harmon focuses her practice on advising corporations and passthrough entities on tax and contractual issues. Clients look to her for counsel on U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign tax compliance and planning issues, including matters relating to subchapter C, subchapter K, subchapter S and...
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Patrick Rodriguez's practice focuses on business and tax planning law. A certified public accountant, Patrick is experienced in representing clients in mergers and acquisition. He represents both buyers and sellers in a broad range of transactions, which encompasses stock purchases and asset sales...
![Steven Ziven](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2023-07/Ziven_Steven_LinkedIn.jpg?h=77788d13&itok=hGune3mq)
Steven Ziven, who is the firm's Los Angeles Office Managing Partner and an Executive Committee member, advises clients primarily on corporate law and legal issues associated with business transactions, real estate transactions and financings. He has extensive experience in buying and selling...
![Austin Strine](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Strine_Austin_LinkedIn.jpg?h=b5bab779&itok=bTCXb9qJ)
Austin Strine represents clients in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts. His experience includes matters ranging from data privacy and cybersecurity issues and commercial breach of contract claims to corporate and shareholder disputes and business defamation cases. He also...
![John F. Meigs](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Meigs_John_LinkedIn_0.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=4NU7EfLU)
John Meigs concentrates his practice in planning and problem solving for wealthy individuals, their families and property interests, both in the United States and abroad. This includes a substantial amount of work on estate planning and estate and trust administration and on tax aspects of planning...
![Nancy A. Slowe](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Slowe_Nancy_LinkedIn_0.jpg?h=753774cc&itok=wf625bRx)
Nancy Slowe concentrates her practice in estate planning and estate administration. She has significant experience in the design and implementation of estate planning instruments, family wealth transfer arrangements and in sophisticated estate and trust administration matters. Her practice also...
![Howard B. Miller](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-08/Miller_Howard_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=eIrkKlDL)
Howard Miller is a seasoned business, estates and trusts lawyer who represents clients ranging from single-owner businesses to large family-owned and public companies. His experience spans from representing clients in deals to buy and sell businesses valued up to $150 million and serving as executor...
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Joel's practice often places him in the role of "outside general counsel" to clients, working closely with and advising company executives, boards, and members to successfully close transactional matters and manage corporate governance matters. Joel's experience includes negotiating, drafting and...
![Sunu M. Pillai](/sites/default/files/styles/card_410x307_/public/images/2022-09/Pillai_Sunu_LinkedIn.jpg?h=40c24adf&itok=TC5UeOPj)
Sunu Pillai counsels construction and energy industry clients on issues throughout the project life-cycle, from contract formation through dispute resolution. Having worked in the construction industry as an engineer, project manager and claims consultant prior to his legal career, Sunu has a deep...
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Robert Mascioli counsels entrepreneurs, family businesses and middle-market companies on a wide variety of business matters. Acting as their outside general counsel, Bob strives to learn the background, operations and strategies of clients and seeks to align his legal advice with their goals to...