Practice Areas
Canada Cross-Border, Corporate, M&A Transactions, Securities
Practice Description
Mr. Rich focuses on corporate finance and other capital generation projects. He renders legal assistance to corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies engaged in private or public debt or equity financing and in acquisitions and dispositions of businesses, and also represents broker-dealers in corporate finance transactions. His clients range from large listed companies to venture capital startups. He also advises 1934 Exchange Act issuers with their various SEC reporting and compliance obligations, including acting as special securities counsel to some issuers. Mr. Rich also helps clients structure private investment limited partnership and offshore funds.
Education
- A.B., 1960 Cornell University
- LL.B., 1965 New York University School of Law
Admissions
1965 New York
Affiliations
- New York Department of State Corporations Advisory Task Force (1997 - 2001)
- Reporter, New York Partnership Law and Limited Liability Company Law, West's McKinney's Laws and Forms (1994--)
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Corporation Law, (1992-1995)
- New York State Bar Association, Executive Committee, Banking, Corporation and Business Law Section (1985-1988, 1990-1992 and 2004-2007) and Committee on Corporation Law (1974-1992; 1995 --)
- American Bar Association (Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities, Corporate Law Section)
Publications Available on this website...
"
Alert to Foreign Issuers: Upcoming Date to Measure Your SEC Reporting Status as a Foreign Private Issuer,"
Client Advisory, May 12, 2009
Additional Publications
Mr. Rich was the principal draftsman of the Revised Limited Partnership Act in New York which became effective in July 1991 and participated in the drafting of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. Mr. Rich serves as the editor of the McKinney’s Practice Commentaries on the New York partnership law and limited liability company law.
Presentations
Lecturer at various programs of the New York State Bar Association and other bar associations on a variety of corporate topics.