David M. Zlotchew
Throughout his legal career, Mr. Zlotchew has worked together with his clients to develop innovative but always practical solutions to their complex business needs.
Mr. Zlotchew has represented all manner of participants in private and public offerings of debt, equity and hybrid securities, in business combinations, tender offers, public reverse mergers and other acquisitions and divestitures of securities and assets, as well as in matters of corporations law, agency, fiduciary duties, Exchange Act reporting and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations and exchange rules.
Mr. Zlotchew began his career at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP, a full-service New York City based law firm, where he spent over 10 years in the corporate department. After leaving Kramer Levin, Mr. Zlotchew was Of Counsel to Haynes and Boone, LLP, a full-service international law firm for two years, before striking out on his own and establishing the Law Office of David M. Zlotchew.
Selected Client Representations:
• Represented various companies in reverse acquisitions of public shells and related PIPE financing transactions, known as Alternative Public Offerings.
• Comprehensive representation of public medical device maker, assisting in such matters as periodic reporting, proxy and information statements, venture capital, IPO and follow-on financings, AMEX delisting defense, corporate governance and miscellaneous contractual matters.
• Soup-to-nuts representation of privately held electronic trading software provider. Counseled client on wide variety of legal matters from entity selection and formation, through several rounds of financing, until the ultimate nine-figure sale of the business for cash.
• Represented companies in various industries in private placements ranging from less than $1 million to more than $50 million.
• Represented private telecommunications company in merger with another distressed company in the same industry and the related consensual restructuring of $120 million of debt.
• Represented company in establishing oil and gas drilling programs and the private financing of such programs through the sale of partnership interests.
• Represented executive in the establishment and early termination of $19.5 million management services and co-investment arrangements.
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1997
Education
- Columbia Law School, New York, New York
- J.D. - 1996
- Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Law Review: Columbia Business Law Review, Articles Editor
- University of Pennsylvania
- B.A. (Cum Laude) - 1993
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association
- New York County Lawyers Association
- Bar Association of the City of New York
Past Employment Positions
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, LLP
- Haynes and Boone, LLP, Of Counsel
- Law Office of David M. Zlotchew






