Lawrence Mandala's Email & Phone

Lawrence B. Mandala is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee and Chairman of the Firm's Transactions practice group. He has over 20 years of experience representing publicly and privately owned businesses in a wide range of corporate and business transactions. His corporate finance practice has included private placements, IPOs and secondary public offerings of equity, debt, direct participation and hybrid securities. Mr. Mandala has extensive experience in business acquisitions, including mergers, asset purchases, stock purchases, strategic alliances and joint ventures, corporate restructurings, exchange offers, private equity investments, going private transactions and hostile and friendly tender offers. In addition to transactional matters, Mr. Mandala regularly counsels public and private clients on federal and state securities and general corporate law matters, including compliance with periodic reporting requirements and proxy solicitation regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, insider trading, anti-takeover planning, resales of restricted securities, director and officer fiduciary duties, executive compensation and disclosure obligations. Mr. Mandala also provides guidance to public companies in their compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the corporate governance rules of the NYSE, AMEX and NASD and advises public and private companies and their directors, officers and shareholders regarding other corporate governance issues and corporate best practices. Mr. Mandala's clients have included companies in virtually every major industry. These clients have ranged in size from start-ups and emerging companies to large, multinational public corporations. Mr. Mandala is a frequent speaker on corporate and securities law topics.