Our Founding Partner David E. Fleming is a business and real estate attorney with a specialty in corporate formations and financings and real estate business transactions. For more than 30 years, Mr. Fleming has represented companies, underwriters and placement agents in initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, SPACS, PIPES, registered direct offerings, REITs and other private placements of equity and debt securities. He has extensive experience representing sponsors of private equity funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds.

 

He regularly negotiates documents for partnerships, limited liability companies, joint venture, partnership, complex merger and acquisition, asset purchase and divestiture agreements and ISDA documentation. He is a trusted advisor to founders, boards of directors and senior management on disclosure, corporate governance and investor relations, including executive compensation matters.

 

For 3 years, Mr. Fleming was Of Counsel to the New York law firm of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, where he worked on complex securities offerings including SPACS,  PIPES, and private placements of equity and convertible debt securities. For more than 25 years before, Mr. Fleming was a partner in several national law firms, including being a Member of the firm of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. and a Partner in the law firm of Cummings and Lockwood, where his industry focus was real estate, technology, e-commerce, healthcare and oil and gas. He frequently represents clients in cross-border transactions in Canada, Europe and Australia.

 

He is admitted to the practice of law in the States of New York, Connecticut and Maryland and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District and Eastern District of New York.

 

Mr. Fleming graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government; Harvard University with a Graduate Studies Certificate in Administration and Management, where he was selected as a Langlois Scholar for Outstanding Academics (First in Class) and graduation Class Marshall; and the University of Maryland School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude.