Counsel to boards of directors, audit and special board committees, and senior executives of public companies with respect to corporate governance issues, management succession, relationships with institutional investors, compensation practices for directors and officers, conflict of interest matters, and change-of-control transactions. Committee representations include leading investigations of allegations of management misconduct, whistleblower complaints, stock option backdating, accounting irregularities, auditor resignations, and violations of securities laws including insider trading, as well as to address shareholder concerns including lack of operating performance or excessive compensation.

For over 20 years, lead counsel representing buyers, sellers, investors, special committees of boards of directors, and other stakeholders in over 300 mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, and restructurings of private and public companies. Lead counsel for Republic Services, Inc.'s multi-billion dollar merger with Allied Waste Industries, Inc., the largest deal in the industrial services sector in 2008.

Lead counsel to issuers in an aggregate of over $4 billion in underwritten public equity and debt offerings, including a $1.5 billion IPO, the largest initial public offering ever of a Florida-based company.

Counsel to public and private companies and investor groups in private placements of equity and debt securities, including early stage and other venture capital financings, raising an aggregate of over $1 billion.

Chambers USA 2006-2010, Ranked in Florida for Corporate/M&A & Private Equity

The Legal 500 2009-2010, Leading lawyer for Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts: Middle Market (National)

The Best Lawyers in America 2005-2010, Listed in Florida for Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, and Venture Capital Law

Super Lawyers Magazine 2006-2010, Listed in Florida for Business/Corporate, Securities & Corporate Finance, and Mergers & Acquisitions

South Florida Business Journal 2009, Key Partners Award Winner for Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions Law

Daily Business Review 2009, Named "Top Dealmaker: Corporate"

Florida Trend's Legal Elite 2006

Martindale-Hubbell, AV Rated

KPMG Audit Committee Roundtable, Panelist, "Preparing for Growth; Focusing on Controls, Transparency, and Financial Communications," Spring 2010

KPMG Audit Committee Roundtable, Panelist, "Economic Crisis, Uncertainty, and Change - A New Era of Corporate Governance," Spring 2009

Akerman Senterfitt SEC Regulations Seminars, Speaker, January 2009, January 2007, April 2003, November 2002, September 2000

Daily Business Review, Co-Author, "Sarbanes-Oxley can benefit small firms," August 30, 2005

National Investor Relations Institute 2005 Annual Conference, Panelist, "What Part of Guidance Don't You Understand?" June 2005

KPMG General Counsel Forum, Speaker, "Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys under Sarbanes-Oxley," June 2003

PricewaterhouseCoopers, Speaker, "Overview of Sarbanes-Oxley Act," November 2002

Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Panelist, "Audit Committees After Sarbanes-Oxley Act," November 2002

Corporation Accountability After Sarbanes-Oxley, Moderator, September 2002

Chair of Corporate Practice of Akerman Senterfitt since 1998

The Florida Bar, Business Law Section, Member

Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Board Member

AIPAC, National Council

Ransom Everglades School, Board of Trustees

Crist-Kottkamp Transition Team Citizen Review Group, Past Member 2006-2007