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.