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Joel J. Goldschmidt is a Partner in Kurzman Eisenberg’s Corporate practice group. Joel is a highly-skilled transactional attorney with extensive experience representing and advising clients – both companies and individuals — in connection with a variety of securities, corporate, real estate and tax matters. His securities expertise covers a broad range of deal structures and financing strategies including traditional public offerings (initial and secondary), reverse mergers, private placements, PIPEs, registered directs and shelf take-downs. He also regularly advises his clients on disclosure and compliance issues. Joel’s corporate expertise includes mergers (private-to-private, private-to-public and public-to-public), sales and acquisitions of assets and businesses, commercial financing transactions, investment vehicles and joint ventures. He also regularly advises clients on matters relating to the formation, organization, administration, maintenance, governance and operation of business entities, including matters relating to executive employment arrangements, equity compensation arrangements and general business contracts, as well as strategic issues and tax matters relating to their structure, operations and strategic transactions. Over the course of his career, Joel has represented companies of varying sizes at every stage of development, from start-ups to development stage to fully operational, from nano-cap to large-cap, in a broad range of industries, including technology, life sciences, hospitality, real estate (including REITs), distance learning, food distribution, logistics, banking and finance, business services, publishing and media and entertainment.
Prior to joining Kurzman Eisenberg, Joel was a partner at Morse, Zelnick, Rose & Lander, LLP, a “boutique” corporate and securities law firm. Earlier in his career, Joel worked at Proskauer Rose and Shea & Gould.
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