David Feldman's book, Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company
Public Without an IPO, now in its second 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
David Feldman
Corporate and Securities
David N. Feldman
is the founder and Managing Partner
of Feldman Weinstein & Smith LLP.
His practice focuses on corporate and
securities matters and general representation
of public and private companies, investment
banks, private equity firms and high
net worth individuals both in general
representation and in transactional
and financing activities of all types.
David's work also includes representation
of smaller and middle market private
companies in general and transactional
matters.
David is considered one of the country's
leading experts on reverse mergers,
in which a private company becomes publicly
traded through a merger with a publicly
held "shell" company. His
book on the subject, Reverse Mergers:
Taking a Company Public Without an IPO
(Bloomberg Press, 2006) was published
in September 2006. David is a frequent
public speaker, seminar leader and counsel
on issues related to formation, management
and acquisition of public shell companies
and implementation of reverse mergers.
He has appeared on Bloomberg TV and
National Public Radio and been quoted
in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Inc. magazine, Forbes, Entrepreneur,
CFO magazine and others. In June 2005
he testified before the SEC's Advisory
Committee on Smaller Public Companies.
David is also coauthor of PIPES: A Guide
to Private Investments in Public Equity,
Revised and Updated Edition (Bloomberg
Press, 2005). For a video introduction
to reverse mergers with David follow
this link: http://www.businessmovies.biz/company-details.asp?id=1
David received a Bachelor of Science
in economics from the Wharton School
of Business at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1982 and his Juris Doctor in 1985
from the University of Pennsylvania
Law School. David is an avid supporter
of Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania
and currently serves as Chairman Emeritus
of Wharton's worldwide Alumni Association
Board and a member of the University's
Alumni Association Board of Directors.
He is also the founder of the New York
Business School Clubs, an association
of New York-area business school alumni
groups, and a member of the Alumni Advisory
Board of Wharton School Publishing.
David serves as a member of the Business
Advisory Board of Sterling National
Bank, the Board of Directors of WhatGoesAround.org
and the Board of Advisors of Channel
Capital Management LLC. He also serves
on the Board of Trustees of Lawrence
Woodmere Academy, and on the Board of
Directors of Youth Renewal Fund. He
has previously been a member of or associated
with the law firms of Feldman &
Ellenoff (which he co-founded); Pryor
Cashman Sherman & Flynn; Reavis
& McGrath (now Fulbright & Jaworski);
and Rivkin Radler LLP.
