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Carl is a practicing attorney with over thirty years of experience
as a business attorney in New York. He has advised clients in business formation,
debt and equity financing through public offerings and private placement transactions,
various lending transactions including credit securitizations, corporate governance,
SEC regulatory compliance, acquisitions, mergers, and sales. Carl has also represented
clients in commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation, governmental agency
enforcement proceedings and financial distress work out matters. He also has experience
in the legal aspects of publishing, musical theater, television and other entertainment
industry projects. Carl has a thorough and comprehensive understanding
of the everyday challenges faced by business leaders in such matters as sales
and marketing, manufacturing, service delivery, regulatory compliance and customer
satisfaction. His experience permits him to express legal issues in a business
context enabling executives to make efficient, well informed and effective business
decisions. Throughout his career Carl has advised entrepreneurs at the earliest
stages of business formation, through proof of concept, expansion and value realization.
Besides being a principal in KKP, Carl heads the New York business practice of White and Williams LLP, a Philadelphia based firm with eight offices nationally. Carl has also served as director of publicly and privately held companies
as well as numerous charitable, religious and civic institutions. He holds a Bachelor
of Science from Union College in chemistry and Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law
School. He is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Florida Bar
Association. Carl has been AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating
system. Carl has been admitted to the Bars of New York, Florida
and the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
since 1976 and the U.S. Tax Court since 1980.
He served as the
Editor-in-Chief of Model Partnership Agreements for New York Law Firms
in 1989. From 1987 to 1991 Carl chaired the Committee of Law Office Economics
and Management of the New York State Bar Association and from 1984 to 1987 Carl
chaired the Subcommittee on Law Firm Administration. |
