David N. Feldman (born 1960) is an American attorney specializing in small company finance. He is the author of ''Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO'', published by Bloomberg Press in September 2006, ''Reverse Mergers and Other Alternatives to Traditional IPOs Second Edition'' (Bloomberg Press 2009), and coauthor of ''PIPES: A Guide to Private Investments in Public Equity, Revised and Updated Edition'' (Bloomberg Press, 2005).

Biography

Feldman was born in 1960 in

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. After attending

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, he enrolled at the

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of the

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where he was the program director of WQHS Radio, Penn's radio station. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Penn in 1982. He then went to the

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, graduating in 1985. 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. Feldman was the chairman of the station while Griboff ran the station, but the station ultimately was sold at a loss.

Career

After law school, he worked as an associate attorney at Rivkin Radler LLP in Uniondale, NY from 1985 to 1986, and at

Fulbright & Jaworski Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (now Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP), was founded in Houston, TX in 1919 by R.C. Fulbright. On June 3, 2013, the firm became part of the global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, a Swiss verein. Norton Rose Fulbright US L ...

in Manhattan (formerly Reavis & McGrath) until 1988. Subsequently, he worked at Pryor Cashman LLP from 1988 to 1992, before starting a firm with a partner: Feldman and Ellenoff. He left Feldman and Ellenoff in 1996 to start his own firm, which became Feldman LLP. As of 2010, Feldman has been a partner at Richardson & Patel LLP. His practice focuses on corporate and securities matters and general representation of

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and

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and high-net-worth individuals. He is particularly interested in 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. In June 2005 he testified before the

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's Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies. Feldman is also a regular contributor on entrepreneurship to Slate.com's small business site.

Additional affiliations

He is the former Chair of the Wharton School's alumni association, and is also the founder of the New York Business School Clubs, an association of New York-area business school alumni groups. He also serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of Channel Capital Management LLC, the Board of Trustees of

, and the Board of Directors of Youth Renewal Fund.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Feldman, David N. New York (state) lawyers University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni People from Long Island Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni 1960 births Living people Lawrence Woodmere Academy alumni