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 Ken Vennera is a member of the Corporate and Securities
Department of the Firm. Ken graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics in 1989. He received a Juris Doctor 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 has been a practicing attorney since 1994. He is admitted to the bars of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC.
Ken has extensive experience handling
securities work including compliance with the reporting
requirements of the Securities and 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. 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 recent years, Ken has specialized in private investments in
public companies and corporate governance issues (including
compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley). Ken has also handled private
and public debt financings, as well as syndicated and other
commercial bank financings.
In addition, he has significant experience handling complex
business transactions; mergers and acquisitions (both asset and
stock purchases) with a variety of deal sizes from $10 million
to $200 million in diverse industries (including a range of
service industries, technology, pharmaceutical and manufacturing
companies). He has also been involved in numerous transactions with international
parties.
Ken also has counseled startup businesses with regard to
choice of entity decisions and other formation issues,
development of incentive equity and other compensation plans for
clients and registration of trade marks and trade names and
protection of intellectual property, as well as business
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