Public Companies and Corporate Governance
- M&A activity Crain’s Cleveland Business, June 2-8, 2014
- Hostile Takeovers Crain’s Cleveland Business, March 11, 2013
- Groupon IPO – offering and accounting issues
- Groupon IPO – its “funky” history
- Secondary markets in private securities Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2011
- Goldman Sachs/Facebook Deal
- Board Minutes That Survive Scrutiny TRENDS Your Business and the Law, January/February 2008
- The Risk-Averse SEC CFO.com September 27, 2007
- SEC’s Small Biz Proposals Criticized CFO.com, September 24, 2007
- SEC Looks to Ease Small-Company Burdens Compliance Week, May 30, 2007
- Blackstone IPO would be a flip-flop Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2007
- Small Biz: Regulation a Roadblock to Capital CFO.com, September 29, 2006
- What’s Worse Than Getting Nickel and Dimed To Death? The Hidden (Non-Monetary) Costs of Sarbanes-Oxley Disclosure PLI’s Compliance Counselor, September 18, 2006
- Should You Take Your Public Company Private? Kelley Indianapolis News Room, August 8, 2006
- Chron 200 Comings and Goings San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 2006
- Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley Inc. Magazine, September 2005
- The Impact of the New York Stock Exchange’s Proposed Acquisition of Archipelago on the Future of Reverse Mergers The Wall Street Transcript & Gateway Reports, May 9, 2005
- The Hefty Costs of Compliance The Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 15, 2005
- Executives Not Going Public, IPO Process Seen as Costly and Distracting Seattle-Post Intelligence, September 7, 2004
- Going Private: A Reasoned Response to Sarbanes-Oxley? Builder UK, September 4, 2004
- Time Warner – MGM Deal Could Be Imminent, But Sony Still in the Running
The San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2004
- Going Public Getting Harder; as IPO’s Become Costlier, Some CEO’s Decide to Sell San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 2004
- Some Private Firms Embrace Law’s Tough Accounting Standards
Arizona Daily Star, August 2, 2004
- Reverse Mergers Into Public Shell Corporations Florida CPA Netlink, July 15, 2004
- Stock Option Expensing: Getting Ahead of the Issue Compliance Week, April 13, 2004
- Boost The Post-IPO Stock Price By Garnering Immediate Analyst Coverage Bowne.com, April, 2003
- Cost of Being Public Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2003
- Strategic Planning 101: Why Tech Firms Blew It Tech Republic, July 21, 2001
Venture Capital and Private Equity
- A look at Northeast Ohio’s innovators Crain’s Cleveland Business, January 16, 2012
- OfficeMax…in the beginning CJ News, November 18, 2011
- Marking Your Territory-Protecting intellectual property AirTran Inflight, January, 2010.
- The Future of Private Equity CNBC Squawk Box, July 2006
- Wanted: Lawyers With a Skill Set in Finance The New York Times, April 28, 2006
- Venture Capital Investment Dollar Dropoff Hitting Home Crain’s Cleveland Business, October 2, 2005
- Not So Fast! Seeking an Investor? Slow down and take five steps to protect your company from making a bad choice Entrepreneur, September 2003
- Israeli biotech company (Simbionix) bringing R&D unit here Crain’s Cleveland Business, February 18, 2002
- A Young Company’s Nightmare: The Cram Down – In lean economic times, getting that next round of financing can mean having to swallow hard Business 2.0, August 21, 2001
- Meet the Invendor Red Herring, February 14, 2001
- New Investment – Banking Players Emerge in California’s Silicon Valley Knight Ridder / Tribune Business News, October 3, 1999
- Unlock The Venture – Capital Vault Success, February, 1999
- Electronic Superhighway Blocks Some Exits American Banker, October 1998
- Fishing For Venture Capital: So you want to start a high-tech business Business Week, October 13, 1997
- How change in stock-holding period can alter dynamics of venture deals San Jose Mercury News, August 11, 1997
Management and Business
- Dealmakers Unite – Part 2 Smart Business Cleveland, August 2015
- Dealmakers Unite – Part 1 Smart Business Cleveland, July 2015
- Dealmakers Unite! Wage War against Deal Waste, Inefficiency, and Friction, Falls River Group, LLC, Quarter 4, 2014 Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 4
- The imperative for exits, Evergreen Consulting, LLC, IBIS Blog for week of July 14, 2014
- Life Changing Liquidity Events, Falls River Group, LLC, Quarter 2, 2014 Newsletter, Volume 4, Issue 2
- Predictions 2014: the future of flexible law firm configurations, Crain’s Cleveland Business, January 5, 2014
- Morgenstern’s Maxims. “An expectation unarticulated is a disappointment guaranteed” Morino, Mario. “Leap of Reason: Managing to outcomes in an Era of Scarcity”. 2012
- “An expectation unarticulated is a disappointment guaranteed”. Martin Wolf News, October 8, 2011
