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What is the Value of Legal Opinions in Reverse Mergers?

By David Feldman at 23 October, 2008, 9:38 am

In some reverse merger transactions attorneys resist giving traditional legal opinions. Or in other cases, in particular in Chinese reverse mergers, getting opinions that have any value requires multiple attorneys in multiple jurisdictions to opine (in one recent transaction our client sought an opinion from a British Virgin Islands attorney, another in Hong Kong and [...]

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David N. Feldman is a Partner in Richardson & Patel LLP. His practice focuses on corporate and securities matters and general representation of public and private companies, investment banks, private equity firms and high net worth individuals.

David is considered one of the country's leading experts on reverse mergers, in which a private company becomes publicly traded through a merger with a publicly held "shell" company. His book on the subject, Reverse Mergers and Other Alternatives to Traditional IPOs, Second Edition (Bloomberg Press, 2009) was originally published in 2006.

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