By David Feldman at 22 October, 2009, 8:40 am
Earlier this month Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the famed private equity firm, featured in the classic book and movie Barbarians at the Gate, completed a reverse merger, without raising new funds, and is now a public company traded on the Euronext. It has taken quite awhile. Two years ago they tried an IPO but then that market dried [...]
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Introduction to Reverse Mergers
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.
