Bio

Gary Wollberg is a partner in the Firm’s San Diego office whose practice areas include corporate and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, healthcare, and finance. In the area of corporate and securities law and finance, Mr. Wollberg represents issuers in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, and broker/dealers acting as private placement agents for both established and start-up companies. He assists issuers in complying with federal and state securities regulations, including reporting requirements, proxy contests, tender offers, and exchange offers for public companies. He also represents issuers and broker/ dealers in investigations before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In the mergers and acquisition area, Mr. Wollberg represents buyers and sellers of companies in the negotiation, documentation and closing of mergers and of sales and purchases of equity securities and assets, equity and debt financing and credit facilities, secured transactions, executive and workforce employment, and technology transfers. In the healthcare field, Mr. Wollberg represents hospitals with integrated delivery systems, skilled nursing facilities, medical groups and IPAs with respect to corporate reorganizations, capital financing transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, spin-off reorganizations, asset and stock sales, joint ventures, management services, general corporation and noncompetition issues. Mr. Wollberg maintains a special expertise in matters of nonprofit organizations, providing counsel on corporate governance and member relations, federal and state tax compliance, capital financing and mergers, acquisitions and dissolutions for non-profit hospitals, colleges and universities, medical research institutes and arts organizations. Mr. Wollberg's practice also includes many other aspects of general business law, including the registration, licensing and hypothecation of intellectual property; distributorship formation; and the formation, syndication and dissolution of partnerships and limited liability companies.