The JOBS Act and Its Impact on Capital-Raising

Rikard is a shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Denver office. His practice focuses on counseling public and private companies with respect to state and federal securities laws including all aspects of securities registration and reporting under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Rikard also represents private and public companies in a broad range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, equity and debt financings, corporate contracting, and general commercial and corporate matters and counsels business entities in all stages of development and all aspects of operations.

Prior to joining the firm, Rikard practiced international law in Washington, DC and taught administrative and public international law at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. Rikard served five years as a career officer in the Naval Counter Special Operations Forces Company of the Swedish Royal Navy.

Robert Friedel is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the firm’s Philadelphia office.

Mr. Friedel regularly counsels NYSE, Nasdaq and other publicly traded companies and their officers and directors through the increasingly complex web of governing federal and state laws and rules, including SEC regulations and stock exchange rules, developments in statutory, regulatory and case law, and corporate governance best practices. He represents issuers, underwriters and selling shareholders in initial public offerings, follow-on public offerings, PIPEs offerings and high yield debt 144A offerings, including related registered exchange offers. Mr. Friedel represents purchasers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions involving publicly and privately held acquirers and targets, and he represents issuers, private equity funds and venture capital investors in complex equity investment, spin-off and restructuring transactions.

Brian S. Korn is of counsel in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the New York office.

Mr. Korn represents issuers and underwriters in investment banking and capital markets transactions, including transactions involving equity, debt, hybrid/convertible and preferred securities, derivatives and foreign exchange. He has executed several IPOs and other equity value monetization transactions, such as spin-offs, split-offs and carve-out transactions. He also has extensive experience in sponsor leveraged buy-outs and bank/bond acquisition financing. Prior to joining Pepper, Mr. Korn was director and head of equity capital markets and equity syndicate compliance at Barclays. Before that, Mr. Korn was senior vice president and assistant general counsel for Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and was an attorney at several major law firms for more than 10 years. Mr. Korn is a frequent speaker on capital markets transaction execution and securities laws. He is a faculty member of the Practising Law Institute, and past presenter to the New York State Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association.

Admitted to practice in New York and California, Mr. Korn is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Law (JD) and the University of California, Berkeley (BA).