Jeff Warren

The following is a representative sample of the work or deals Jeff Warren has done. Mr. Warren was the lead or co-lead counsel on each matter.

• Counsel to issuer in initial public and secondary offerings of common stock and other securities.
  
• Counsel to selling stockholders in public and secondary offerings of various securities.
  
• Completed fund formation and related work to organize private equity and hedge funds.
  
• Structured, negotiated and closed institutional private equity and venture capital investments in life science, retail, health care and several other industries.
  
• Corporate and agent's counsel in private placement transactions to finance a wide range of businesses from oil and gas drilling and income programs to book stores.
  
• Counsel to buyers in private asset purchase transactions of radio stations, regional floral distributors, armored carriers, window products, pipeline equipment, banking assets, consumer products distributors, imaging and printing equipment, to name a few.
  
• Counsel to sellers in private asset sale transactions of logistics businesses, auto parts manufacturer, mining equipment, oil and gas operators, etc.
  
• Representation of both buyers and sellers in business acquisitions structured as stock for cash and in tax free structures in the energy, manufacturing, consumer products, and other industries.
  
• Corporate counsel in several bankruptcy driven business acquisitions, including lead counsel in one of the first successful prepackaged 11’s. 
  
• Corporate counsel in the merger of food processing firms, among other business combination transactions.
  
• Issuer’s counsel in a series of multi-class asset backed securities transactions underwritten by major houses.
  
• Represented several companies in restructurings, solvency related or tax or otherwise driven.
  
• Litigation experience includes oversight of numerous matters in state and federal courts and including lead counsel role in many litigated bankruptcy matters; have appeared as creditor’s counsel in preference, fraudulent conveyance, stay relief and other cases from Hawaii to New York, representing major securities brokerage firms, among others.
  
• Represented, as lead outside counsel, a major oil company in connection with its Alaska operations, assisting resolution of working and other interests.
  
• Successfully conceived and asserted an “out of the box” defense to a $230MM claim in a geothermal dispute representing a major oil company; brought into the case on virtually the eve of trial.
  
• Successfully represented broker-dealers in a variety of SEC investigative and enforcement matters, including successfully resolving enforcement matters at the Wells submission stage.
  
• Preparation of SEC periodic reporting documents and annual reports for a variety of issuers.
  
• Conducting or scripting the annual meetings for several companies, both public and private.
  
• Represented corporate borrowers in both syndicated and direct bank financing transactions.
  
• Numerous commercial transactions from contractual agreements to acquire feedstocks, to athletic shoe endorsements to service agreements.
  
• Served as arbitrator in a variety of commercial disputes, including franchise, contractual, and hedge and venture fund disputes.
  
• Counsel to corporate officers and directors, including GC role and oversight of change management, counsel on fiduciary obligations and related matters.