Musings
Back from R&R…&B
By David Feldman at 15 August, 2010, 10:04 pm
Vacations, well they are no longer just rest and relaxation. These days they are rest and relaxation and Blackberry! I just got back from a little break with the family that was actually none of the above. We ran around in a fun place doing fun things all the while dealing with several ongoing deals [...]
Read More >>Dodd-Frank VII: Big Picture Thoughts
By David Feldman at 28 July, 2010, 7:21 am
If you are seriously A.D.D., and my summaries of summaries of the Dodd-Frank bill took too long, here I’ll give the big overview of the bill as it may affect smaller public companies. I want to give credit to Weil Gotshal & Manges, Davis Polk & Wardwell, as well as the Harvard Law School Forum on [...]
Read More >>“Live Aid” and Thoughts on 25 Years Before the Bar
By David Feldman at 7 July, 2010, 6:50 am
Remember “Live Aid”? I do. The day-long concert to help raise money to reduce famine in Ethiopia took place July 13, 1985. Two concerts were held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. Two billion people in 60 countries watched it. Legends like Queen, Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, U2 and a personal favorite, Adam Ant, performed [...]
Read More >>China De-Brief Part I
By David Feldman at 27 May, 2010, 2:52 am
I am heading home after a fascinating 9-day trip to Beijing and Shanghai. Much to tell about the PIPE Conference, but we’ll save that for later posts. Here I just thought I would start with random notes and observations about China in mid-2010:
1. More and more Chinese have their email traveling with them as the [...]
China, China, China
By David Feldman at 14 May, 2010, 10:16 am
In real estate, they say, the three most important things are location, location and location. In the 2000 contested US presidential election the mantra was Florida, Florida, Florida. In reverse mergers these days, well it’s China, China and China. Fully one -third of the reverse merger transactions in the last few years have come from [...]
Read More >>Can You Legislate Ethics?
By David Feldman at 8 May, 2010, 6:36 pm
Sarbanes-Oxley. The Securities Act of 1933. SEC Rule 419 regulating reverse mergers. The SEC’s latest super-hyped and interestingly timed fraud case against the venerable Goldman Sachs. And now Congress’ attempt at reforming the finance industry. Let’s put politics aside (we do our best to be a non-political blog) and think about the real purpose of all [...]
Read More >>The Newest AARP Member
By David Feldman at 22 March, 2010, 6:27 am
I’m hitting the big one next month. Five-oh. And yep I joined the AARP. About 10 years ago I got a mailing from them encouraging me to join, even though you’re supposed to be 50 to be a member. I called my Mom, trying to suggest what a joke it was 10 years early, and [...]
Read More >>Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn
By David Feldman at 24 January, 2010, 10:44 am
OK, faithful blogees, I’m finally entering the century. If you’re on Twitter, my username is DavidNFeldman, and on Linked In just search my name and there I am! I try to post near daily little tips, etc. and have tried to follow others as well. Truthfully I have found that LinkedIn is a very useful [...]
Read More >>New Year’s RM Resolutions
By David Feldman at 26 December, 2009, 11:12 am
As the holidays zip by all too fast, I thought I would pass along the few things I am hoping to do in the year to come. I resolve:
1. To work with the SEC to try to eliminate the onerous “evergreeen” requirement which burdens all former shells forever with a requirement to stay current in [...]
Home for the Holidays…
By David Feldman at 19 December, 2009, 10:03 am
As a blizzard heads to visit us here in New York today, I want to wish all my faithful blogees a happy and safe holiday season and all the best of success in the New Year. We are around for the holidays in no small part because of some major transactions that seem determined to [...]
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