David N. Feldman
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David N. Feldman, a New York attorney, is a published author and leading expert in small company finance. He is the author of Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO[1], published by Bloomberg Press in September 2006. Feldman is also coauthor of PIPES: A Guide to Private Investments in Public Equity, Revised and Updated Edition[2] (Bloomberg Press, 2005).
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[edit] Background
David N. Feldman was born in 1960 in Long Island, New York. He attended Lawrence Woodmere Academy in Nassau Long Island from 1970 to 1978 where he served as the editor in chief of the Lawrence Woodmere Academy newspaper.
After high school, David went on to attend the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. During his time there, David served as the program director of WQHS Radio, Penn's radio station. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University in 1982.
Following his undergrad years at Penn, David attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School. While in law school, he served as the editor in chief of the newspaper. He also embarked on a joint venture with Howard Griboff to purchase a radio station in Daytona Beach, Florida. David was the chairman of the station while Griboff ran the station. The station ultimately was sold at a loss. David graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1985.
[edit] Career
After law school, David worked as an associate attorney at Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, NY from 1985 to 1986. He then went on to work as an associate attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski in Manhattan (formerly Reavis & McGrath) until 1988. After Fulbright & Jaworski David worked at [ryor Cashman LLP from 1988 to 1992, before creating a firm with a partner: Feldman and Ellenoff. He left Feldman and Ellenoff in 1996 to start his own, which has now become Feldman Weinstein & Smith.
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 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, in which a private company becomes publicly traded through a merger with a publicly held "shell" company. See the Wiki article on Reverse takeover. 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 currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of Wharton's worldwide Alumni Association Board and is 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 also 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. In addition, he serves on the Board of Trustees of Lawrence Woodmere Academy, and on the Board of Directors of Youth Renewal Fund.
[edit] References
[edit] External Links - Articles that cite David Feldman
1. USA Today article on reverse mergers.
2. Financial Times article about SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley.
3. Wall Street Journal article concerning PIPE transactions and SEC action.
4. New York Times article on Reverse Mergers.
5. Market News First interview with David N. Feldman.
6. Another Financial Times article about SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley regulation.
7. Wall Street Journal article concerning popularity of reverse mergers that cites David Feldman.
8. David Feldman's Reverse Merger and SPAC Blog with news updates concerning reverse mergers.
