David Feldman's book, Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company
Public Without an IPO, now in its third printing, was published in 2006
by Bloomberg Press (available on http://www.amazon.com).
View David Feldman's reverse merger blog at www.reversemergerblog.com.
Joseph Smith and David Feldman are coauthors of PIPES:
Revised and Updated Edition - A Guide to Private Investments in Public Equity
(Bloomberg Press, 2005) available on http://www.amazon.com.
Attorney Bios
Amanda Gordon
Corporate and Securities
Amanda Gordon is
an associate in the corporate and securities
practice of Feldman Weinstein &
Smith LLP, focusing on mergers and acquisitions
(including reverse mergers), securities
law compliance, public and private securities
offerings, and corporate governance
matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Gordon
was a senior staff attorney in the Division
of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Ms. Gordon
served at the SEC from 2000 to 2004
in the Office of Emerging Growth Companies
and the Office of Manufacturing and
Construction and was an examiner and
reviewer on the Division’s Shareholder
Proposal Taskforce in the Office of
Chief Counsel. As a senior staff attorney,
she screened Securities Act and Exchange
Act filings to identify legal and accounting
issues to determine the level of SEC
staff review and reviewed Securities
Act and Exchange Act filings for compliance
with the federal securities laws. These
Securities Act filings often involved
initial public offerings, mergers and
acquisitions, spin-offs, exchange offers,
tender offers, debt offerings, equity
lines, and PIPEs. The reviews of Exchange
Act filings included periodic reports
and proxy material. In addition, Ms.
Gordon advised foreign and domestic
issuers regarding issuer and third-party
tender offers, beneficial ownership
disclosure, proxy contests, and going
private transactions.
After her tenure at the SEC, Ms. Gordon
was a consultant to a federal agency
charged with enforcing homeland security.
Ms. Gordon also previously practiced
at two large law firms in Washington,
DC, where she gained experience in domestic
and international credit and banking
transactions, mergers and acquisitions,
private equity transactions, and securities
offerings.
Ms. Gordon received her B.A. with Honors
in History from Trinity College in 1994
and her Joint J.D./M.B.A. in Finance
from Boston College, where she was elected
to the Beta Gamma Sigma national academic
honor society. She is admitted to the
New York Bar.
