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M&A AND VENTURE CAPITAL
The Soul of the Deal: Creative frameworks for buying, selling, and investing in any business, Rodin Books, 2022
Dealmakers Unite! Smart Business Magazine, October 12, 2015
Dealmakers Unite! Smart Business Magazine, July 2015 and August 2015
Dealmakers Unite! Wage War against Deal Waste, Inefficiency, and Friction Falls River Group, December 2014
Bridge Financing In A Crisis Often Pits Parties Against Each Other Bowne Review for Dealmakers, December 2009
Crisis Bridge Financings – 2009 The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, September 23, 2009
Going Private: A Reasoned Response to Sarbanes-Oxley? Delisting of Companies, Ch. 7, Icfai University (2008)
Corporate Governance: Building an IPO and Merger Defense through Board Minutes 39th Annual Insti. on Sec. Reg., (NY, NY), Nov. 9, 2007
Group Therapy: SEC Rules Confound Partnerships Between PE Firms and Hedge Funds The Deal, Sept. 25, 2006
Life Support: Crisis Bridge Financing The Deal, August 7, 2006
Going Private: A Reasoned Response to Sarbanes-Oxley SEC 23rd Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation (Washington, D.C.) September 20, 2004
Going Private: A Reasoned Response to Sarbanes-Oxley PLI Advanced SEC Workshop (San Diego, CA) Aug. 12, 2004
Best Intentions. Sarbanes-Oxley: A Law of Unintended Consequences Smart Business Magazine, June 2004
Investor Defaults. How to Protect Your PE or VC Fund PE Fundraising, Insti. for Int’l Research (NY, NY), Sept. 18-19, 2002
Meet the Invendor Venture Capital & Startups, February 14, 2001
Definitive Deal Dictionary, 1999
Balancing the Deal: Private Placements–What They Mean to Your Client Bus. Law Today (November/December 1995)
Private Placement Guidelines – A Lawyer’s Letter to a First Time Issuer ABA Sec. of Business Law, Nov. 1992
Philosophy of Acquisitions Corporate Counsel’s Quarterly, January 1992
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
It’s Time To Change Outdated Corporate Models Selker Leadership Interview – Part 2, June 28, 2009
The SEC: What’s Wrong And How To Fix It Selker Leadership Interview – Part 1, June 16, 2009
Legislation Won’t Prevent The Next Madoff: SEC Needs Talent, Technology & Collaboration (Not New Laws) The Huffington Post, January 13, 2009
Review Directors’ Meeting Materials to Ensure Consistent Disclosure Bowne Digest, May 2007
Sarbanes-Oxley’s Subtle Disclosure Costs Insights: Corporate & Securities Law Advisor, January 2007
Blocking the Boards: Sarbanes-Oxley Prevents Corporate Boards from Making Decisions Based on Solid Business Principles Inside Business – Guest Column, March 2005
Smaller Issuers Unfairly Overburdened in Complying With Sarbanes-Oxley Abstracted from “The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Mid-Cap Issuers”, Bowne Digest for Corporate & Securities Lawyers, May 2005
Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Mid-Cap Issuers Lead Author, Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Dec. 2004
Financial Statement Transparency in MD&A – 2003 The Lawyer’s Brief, November 30, 2004
Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Mid-Cap Issuers SEC 23rd Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation (Washington, D.C) September 20, 2004
Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on Mid-Cap Issuers PLI Advanced Sec. Law Workshop (San Diego, CA), August 12, 2004
Off-Balance Sheet Disclosures in MD&A The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, January 28, 2004
MD&A 2003: Off-Balance Sheet Rules (Mid-Cap Perspective) 35th Annual PLI Institute on Sec. Reg. (NY, NY), November 6, 2003
Proposal Letter to Division of Corporate Finance and Small Business Division of Corporate Finance of the SEC Co-Chair and Co-Author, with Carl Schneider and Stanley Keller, ABA Task Force to revise SEC Rule 147 on Intrastate Offerings, August 9, 1991
Buyer Beware: Clauses for Protection of Buyer in Purchase of Income-Producing Property RE Outlook, Feb. 1989
The Real Estate Syndicator as a Securities Broker-Dealer Small Business Counselor, July 1986
Partnership Bibliography: 1980-1984 Co-Author, Business Law, Vol. 41, Number 2, 1986
Corporations, Partnerships, and Trusts as Purchasers Under Reg. D Real Estate Sec. Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 2, 1986
The Real Estate Syndicator as a Securities Broker-Dealer Real Estate Securities Journal, Vol. 6, Number 2, 1985
Real Estate Securities and the Foreign Investor – Some Problems and Proposals Sec. Reg. Law Journal, Volume 11, Number 332, 1984
Joint Ventures-Unexpected Real Estate Security Real Estate Securities Journal, Vol. 5, Number 2, 1984
Extraterritorial Application of United States Securities Law: A Matrix Analysis 7 Hastings Int’l L. Rev. Number 1 (1983)
Initial Public Offerings — Perspective of Company Counsel Ohio Securities Bulletin, Vol. 1, Number 4, 1983
Real Estate Joint Venture Interests as Securities: Implications of Williamson v Tucker Wash. University L. Rev. (1982)