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Alan Wovsaniker has more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of matters involving mergers & acquisitions, securities regulation, corporate finance, financial restructurings in and out of bankruptcy and business divorce. Mr. Wovsaniker has been featured in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business since the inception of the guide in 2003. He is also listed among The Best Lawyers in America in three categories: corporate, mergers & acquisitions and securities law, and has been featured in Super Lawyers since 2005.
Mr. Wovsaniker counsels clients in the following areas:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Planning and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as debt and equity financings to support acquisitions
- Initial funding and structuring of business organizations
- Structuring employment relationships and equity-based compensation plans
- Securities law, representing issuers and underwriters
- Public securities offerings
- Private investments in public equity (PIPEs)
- Venture capital and other private securities offerings
- Periodic reporting requirements
- Bankruptcy
- Restructurings and workouts of troubled companies
Mr. Wovsaniker is co-author of the definitive book on New Jersey corporate law and practice, New Jersey Corporations and Other Business Entities.
Some examples of Mr. Wovsaniker's work include:
- Representing longtime client LifeCell Corporation in its 2008 sale to Kinetic Concepts, Inc. through an all cash tender offer for an aggregate purchase price of $1.8 billion.
- Serving as outside general counsel for Consolidated Delivery & Logistics since the company's initial public offering in 1995 through its sale to Velocity Express Corporation in 2006. The combined company's revenues were approximately $450 million.
- Representing Velocity Express Corporation in the 2009 restructuring of the company's $100 million mezzanine debt facility through a sale to its lender in a pre-packaged bankruptcy proceeding.
- Serving as general outside counsel to NeoStem, including its public and private securities offerings and its listing on the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Wovsaniker has also advised NeoStem on its acquisition of a Chinese pharmaceutical company.
- Representing MediCor, a global healthcare company, in its sale out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy of its French and UK subsidiaries and certain U.S. assets for an aggregate purchase price of $50 million.
- Representing Summit Global Logistics, a leading global third-party logistics company, in its sale, for more than $55 million, out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- Representing Cerberus Capital Management in its $1.1. billion acquisition out of bankruptcy of Tower Automotive in 2007.
- Representing the Newark Group in its $175 million offering of senior subordinated notes in 2004.
- Serving as general securities counsel for Asta Funding, having advised the company in a public offering and various financings.
- Representing placement agents in PIPEs deals and other private financings.
- Consolidating seven private companies into Vestcom International, Inc. and consummating Vestcom's IPO.
Recent Speaking Engagements
- "How to Go Public in the US: Preparations and Post-Listing Management," International PIPEs Conference 2010, Alan Wovsaniker, Esq., May 25, 2010
- "28th Annual Institute on Proxy Statements, Annual Meetings & Critical Corporate Disclosures and Governance Practices," West Legalworks, Alan Wovsaniker, Esq., December 12, 2006
- "New Jersey Organization and Sale of Small Businesses," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Skills and Methods Course, Robert D. Frawley, Esq., Alan Wovsaniker, Esq., Marie T. DeFalco, Esq., and Brian A. Silikovitz, Esq. March 29, 2005
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Alan Wovsaniker discusses deal challenges and rival bidders to JP Morgan's purchase of Bear Stearns.,
Reuters, March 19, 2008
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Alan Wovsaniker comments on the quick litigation filed against NRG Energy by Mirant Corp. after Mirant's bid for NRG.,
Reuters, May 31, 2006
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Harvard Law School
(J.D., 1977),
magna cum laude
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Brown University
(A.B., 1974),
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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New Jersey
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- Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers University Law School (1989-1995)
- Adjunct Faculty, Seton Hall University Law School (1988-1991)
- District V-C Ethics Committee, Supreme Court (1994-1998)
- Essex County Bar Association
- Trustee (1996-1999)
- Chair, Corporate Law Committee (1999-2003)
- Chair, Banking Law Committee (1994-1997)
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
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