Practice Groups:

Charles Friedman joined the Firm as a partner in 2003 and is a member of the Firm’s Transactional Department and Corporate, Securities and Investment Funds Practice Groups.

Mr. Friedman has a diverse transactional practice representing public and privately-held companies in the technology, manufacturing, distributing, services and e-commerce sectors, as well as venture capital, “angel” and hedge funds, senior executives and individual investors. Since 1985, his practice has included structuring, negotiating and documenting a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions of public and privately held businesses, joint ventures, venture capital and PIPE transactions and other equity and debt financings (including both public offerings and private placements), and other corporate, securities and commercial transactions. Mr. Friedman also has extensive experience advising senior management and boards of directors of both early stage and mature companies with respect to securities compliance, corporate governance, and other day-to-day and transactional legal matters.

Prior to joining Duval & Stachenfeld, Mr. Friedman was a partner at Morrison &

Foerster LLP (1998 – 2003). Mr. Friedman had previously been a partner at Zimet, Haines, Friedman & Kaplan, a corporate boutique firm, and had practiced as an associate at Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher and Dechert Price & Rhoades.

Mr. Friedman received his B.A. (cum laude) from the University of Rochester in 1982 and his J.D. from Columbia Law School (where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) in 1985.

Mr. Friedman is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is licensed in New York.

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