Outside Counsel

Having the right legal firms on our team - firms that understand both our business and the way we do business – not only helps us sleep much better, it often creates significant competitive advantages…in terms of ‘sealing more deals’ and doing deals faster, and with less risk…and in doing damage control if things go off track - advantages that are very often overlooked or taken for granted. We ourselves are still using the same firm – and the same wonderful attorney that we used when your editor-in-chief ran the old Manny Hanny T-A business back in the 1990s – and glad of it!

Currently, we are in the process of building-out our list of personally Pre-Vetted Attorneys - who have represented us, or with whom we have worked as an expert witness, or met, on one side or the other, in a proxy fight, and who impressed us with their skill. More names to come, but not too many, we promise…

Listings: Outside Counsel

Borden Consulting Group, LLC’s attorneys have specialized in all facets of unclaimed property law, including audit defense, litigation, compliance and consulting for more than twenty years. Due to the often conflicting demands of regulators and auditors, the practice has expanded to regulatory compliance for the securities, electronic payments and insurance industries. Counsel regularly develops strategies to communicate with lost owners, defends multi-state audits and advises clients on all elements of the complex area of escheat law, while bringing to bear significant experience in the proxy process which is used to protect shareholders and mitigate escheatment risk.
Merrill B. Stone

Merrill B. Stone

Partner

Outside Counsel

Phone: (212) 808-7543
Fax: (212) 808-7897

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is an international law firm with more than 300 lawyers and professionals practicing in seven offices throughout the United States, Brussels, Belgium, and an affiliate office in Mumbai, India. We assist clients in accomplishing their business goals by providing practical legal advice and solutions in more than 30 areas of the law. We are proud of the long-term relationships established with clients. These are based on the principles of delivering efficient service, right-sized staffing, the use of state-of-the-art technology and acting as trusted partners of our clients.

Diversity and Inclusion are integrated into the core values of the firm as they drive our approach to recruitment, promotion and retention. We are deeply committed to making diversity a driving force for innovation which benefits the Firm and its clients making Kelley Drye a place where people of all backgrounds, races and cultures can work together and thrive.

Kelley Drye’s National Corporate Practice Group understands the fundamental principles of helping clients facilitate complex transactions and protecting the value of our clients’ deals. We focus on understanding clients’ business goals and strategies while simultaneously navigating industry issues and regulatory challenges. Coupled with our strong legal acumen, we bring meaningful strength and a strong bench of seasoned corporate attorneys with significant experience in mergers & acquisitions, private equity & venture capital, emerging companies, capital markets & securities, finance & lending, corporate governance and investor relations, as well as other niche areas such as corporate trust, SBIA funds, and public-private partnerships.

Jeremy L. Goldstein & Associates LLC

Jeremy L. Goldstein & Associates LLC

Jeremy L. Goldstein & Associates LLC, is a boutique law firm dedicated to advising compensation committees, CEOs, management teams and corporations in executive compensation and corporate governance matters, particularly as such issues arise in the context of transformative corporate events and sensitive situations.

Prior to founding his own firm, Jeremy Goldstein was a partner at a large New York law firm and has been involved in many of the largest corporate transactions of the past decade. Mr. Goldstein is chair of the Mergers & Acquisition Subcommittee of the Executive Compensation Committee of the American Bar Association Business Section.

He writes and speaks frequently on corporate governance and executive compensation issues and is listed as a leading executive compensation lawyer in Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Legal 500.

In addition, Mr. Goldstein is a member of the Professional Advisory Board of the NYU Journal of Law and Business and a member of the Board of Directors of Fountain House, a charity dedicated to the recovery of men and women with mental illness. Mr. Goldstein has a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. cum laude and with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University.

KAI HAAKON E. LIEKEFETT

KAI HAAKON E. LIEKEFETT

Partner and Co-Chair, Shareholder Activism Practice

212 839 8744 (office)
646 256 8315 (cell)

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP tops all activism defense league tables, including the No. 1 rankings by Bloomberg, FactSet and Activist Insight for 2020. In the past five years, Sidley’s team members have led more than 70 proxy contest defenses, more than any other law firm in the world. Sidley is frequently hired as “activism counsel” or “proxy fight counsel” to work with regular outside counsel on these matters.

Tollefsen Business Law PC

Tollefsen Business Law PC

Stephen Tollefsen helps smaller reporting companies find affordable solutions in dealing with corporate governance, shareholder activist and proxy issues. A major emphasis of his practice has been enabling smaller reporting companies comply with the requirements of state and federal securities laws in a cost-effective manner. Mr. Tollefsen has successfully represented both shareholder activists seeking representation on the board of directors, as well as issuers defending against insurgent attacks and hostile takeovers.

Mr. Tollefsen also serves the needs of start-up, developmental and emerging growth companies, and facilitates OTC shareholder liquidity for issuers which choose not to be listed on an exchange. Mr. Tollefsen is a member of the Small Business Issuer Subcommittee of the Federal Securities Committee of the American Bar Association, the ABA State Regulation of Securities Committee and the Business Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. Mr. Tollefsen serves on the board of Aboki International, a charity helping distressed communities in rural Nigeria.

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