Your Humble Blogger Expands Direction….

I am very pleased to announce that my existing law firm is changing its name and expanding its capabilities as a result of a separation with several partners who are terrific but whose practice representing investors in public companies created too many potential conflicts with my practice of taking companies public and representing them thereafter.  We complete our very amicable parting effective June 1 and will remain in our current space together. Call me if you are interested in learning more! Our joint press release is below. Look forward to hearing from you!

All the best,

David

AVOIDING CONFLICTS MAIN IMPETUS

The partners of New York 21-attorney firm Feldman Weinstein & Smith announced today that a group led by partners Eric Weinstein and Joseph Smith has started a new firm called Weinstein Smith LLP, and that founder David Feldman will continue operating the existing firm, which will be renamed Feldman LLP. The two firms will continue to maintain offices in New York’s Graybar Building, and expect to continue to refer appropriate business to each other. The change will be effective on June 1, 2009.

Said founder David Feldman, “The group starting Weinstein Smith are all fabulous lawyers, and have been great to work with. However, representation of investors and placement agents in PIPE transactions by the practice group led by Joe Smith and Rob Charron created too many potential conflicts with my practice of representing companies in the process of going public and thereafter. This is an extremely amicable separation and I look forward to continuing to see them every day and working together.” In addition to securities partner Scott Miller, litigator David Birdoff, and technology and digital media specialists Dov Scherzer and Larry Langs, associates Melanie Figueroa and Charles Phillips and several others will remain with the firm. Feldman also will retain attorneys specializing in blue sky law, trusts & estates, tax matters and broker-dealer regulation. Feldman is the author of Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO (Bloomberg Press, 2006), has many years of experience handling reverse merger transactions and other alternatives to traditional initial public offerings, and is a frequent speaker on the subject. He is also active in mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions.

Joseph Smith added, “We have enjoyed our years with this firm and wish David and his team all the best; we plan on continuing to work with them. There will be no interruption in our client service.” Also co-founding Weinstein Smith are litigators Eric Weinstein and Yong Hak Kim, Saul Finkelstein (secured financings and mergers and acquisitions), Peter Cohen (employee benefits, executive compensation, ERISA and employment law), and transactional and securities partners, Rob Charron and Mike Nertney, and associates Heather Levenson and Jennifer Hall..

The firms have arranged for their pre-existing Feldman Weinstein & Smith emails to continue to function and forward to their new addresses for some time.

For more information about Feldman LLP, please contact David Feldman at 212-931-8700 or dfeldman@feldmanllp.com. For more information about Weinstein Smith LLP, please contact Joseph Smith at 212-931-8719 or jsmith@weinsteinsmith.com or Eric Weinstein at 212-931-8701 or eweinstein@weinsteinsmith.com.

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