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Ken Vennera is a member of the Corporate and Securities Department of the Firm.
He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law, 1994,
where he was a Research Editor for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and a
member of the Moot Court Honor Society. Ken also holds a Master of Laws in
Taxation from Villanova School of Law, 1997. Ken graduated from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in
Economics in 1989.
He has been a practicing attorney since 1994.
He is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Washington, DC and New York.
Ken has had extensive experience handling
securities work including compliance with the reporting
requirements of the Exchange Act of 1934 and public and private
offerings of securities (both debt, equity and derivate
securities) as well as offerings of such securities under the
Securities Act of 1933. In addition, he has represented several
small and mid-cap public company clients with regard to their
initial and continued listing requirements and compliance with
national and international securities exchange rules and
regulations, and those of the NASD. In particular, in recent
years, Ken has specialized in private investments in public
companies as well as reverse acquisition transactions for
private companies desiring to acquire a public shell.
Ken also has ample experience handling complex
business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, all manner of
corporate governance issues (including compliance with
Sarbanes-Oxley), private and public debt financings, as well as
having done work on syndicated bank financings. Ken also has
experience counseling startup businesses with regard to choice
of entity decisions and other formation issues. |