About Us

The head of our practice is Geoffrey Parnass, a corporate attorney based in New York City.  He provides M&A, transaction and general counsel services to entrepreneurs, management teams, private equity sponsors,  and public and private companies.  Previously, he was the Vice President and General Counsel of Hunter Douglas Inc., a manufacturer of home furnishing products.  Before that, he was associated with the corporate law departments of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York.

Mr. Parnass has offices at 400 Park Avenue, Suite 1420, New York, New York 10022, and he can be reached at (212) 593-7151 (office) and (646) 742-7636 (cell).

We handle a wide variety of corporate transactions including:

 

  •          Mergers and acquisitions
  •          Private equity and leveraged buyout transactions
  •          Venture capital investments
  •          Joint ventures and technology licensing arrangements
  •          Bank and other forms of financing transactions
  •          Recapitalization and work-out transactions

          
We also provide general counsel services to business enterprises.  We counsels on contract, regulatory, intellectual property, litigation management and other fields affecting the legal profile of an enterprise, including securities law, commercial contracts, distribution arrangements, antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property licensing and management, joint ventures, employment agreements and compensation structures and technology transfers. We has structured and documented a wide variety of marketing and new venture undertakings for manufacturing and service companies.          

We represents smaller, exchange-listed public companies in securities law matters including preparing and reviewing annual and periodic reports and annual meeting and proxy statements; advising on compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and the obligations of independent directors; NASDAQ and NYSE listing and maintenance requirements; assisting with public disclosure and compliance with insider trading requirements; stock sale and Rule 144 transactions; and corporate governance matters. He also provides counsel in connection with the issuance of securities under Regulation D and registered public offerings under the Securities Act of 1933.   

Mr. Parnass holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the Notes Editor of the Law Review, and an LL.M. in corporate law from Yale Law School. He received a B.A. from Vassar College in Philosophy where he graduated with honors.  He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.