Jeffrey Kesselman Bio

Jeffrey Kesselman is a trusted business and legal advisor who provides guidance to small and mid-sized private and public companies on how to grow their business and achieve their strategic objectives. Jeff partners with his clients to find novel, creative, and practical solutions to complicated legal issues, including negotiating, documenting, and implementing sophisticated commercial transactions, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, securities offerings, and venture capital transactions. His approach to the practice of law is that all commercial agreements should be drafted to be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Nothing is more rewarding to Jeff than plugging himself into a strategic team of professional advisers that provides a business owner with coherent, comprehensible, and executable strategic, business, and legal advice that the client utilizes to grow its business and create value for its stakeholders. He has a wealth of experience regarding Sarbanes-Oxley issues and related corporate governance matters, as well as general compliance and reporting obligations under federal securities laws and stock exchange rules. Jeff also regularly serves as “outside general counsel” to a number of publicly traded and private companies. In this capacity, Jeff has attended Board of Directors, committee, and shareholder meetings, designed compliance programs, advised on public and private offerings of subordinated debt, common equity, and preferred stock, reviewed Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and advised on the acquisition and disposition of various regulated businesses. In each such case, Jeff anchors a dedicated cross-practice legal team providing comprehensive and cost-conscious legal counsel focused on supporting clients in implementing their strategic business plans.