Paul joined Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. as a director in July 2006.  Paul practices in the securities, transactional and general corporate areas.  He counsels companies with respect to public and private offerings of securities and advises public companies with respect to their securities law compliance.  Paul advises private companies in all stages of their development from business formation and capital raising transactions through to liquidity event.  He regularly advises public and private companies in merger and acquisition transactions.

Paul’s areas of focus include:

• Securities Offerings Regulation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Venture Capital
• Emerging Business
• International Business

Bar Admissions

• Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, 1993

Education

• JD, State University of New York at Buffalo (summa cum laude), 1993
• DPhil, Oriel College, Oxford, 1988
• BA, Oriel College, Oxford, 1983

Representative Matters

• Counseled buyers and sellers of businesses by means of merger, tender offer, share exchange and asset purchase, including the acquisitions of public companies by means of cash tender offer and stock merger
• Counseled issuers of notes and other securities in private placement transactions
• Counseled public companies with respect to their reporting and disclosure obligations under the Federal securities laws and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Counseled public companies with respect to Section 16 and Rule 144 compliance programs
• Counseled public companies in their acquisitions of venture financed technology companies
• Counseled private equity investor in connection with its investment in a specialty pharmacy company involving the recapitalization of the company and the purchase of shares from its majority stockholder
• Counseled lead investors in connection with their investments in first and follow-on rounds of venture capital financing
• Counseled venture financed companies in down-round and cram-down financings, including the implementation of pay-to-play and similar mechanisms
• Counseled start-up companies in first and follow-on rounds of venture capital financing, including related development and partnership agreements with strategic investors
• Counseled entrepreneurs with respect to entity formation, seed funding and other organizational matters