Seminar Details:
Tuesday, 9 May 2006
3:30-5pm
Nora Hall

Seminar Speakers:

Jim Fotenos concentrates on corporate, securities, and pass-through entity law. He has extensive experience in representing issuers in public and private equity and debt financing, corporate governance, SEC reporting and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and broker-dealer and investment advisor regulation. He serves as primary outside counsel to one of the largest container leasing companies in the world. He joined Greene Radovsky in September 2000 after eight years as a principal with Fotenos & Suttle, P.C., of San Francisco.

Mr. Fotenos is a member of the Opinions Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar. He served as Co-Chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section for 2004-2005, and as the Committee’s Vice-Chair of Legislation for 2003-2004. While serving as Co-Chair of the Committee, Mr. Fotenos was one of the editors of the Committee’s 2005 report, “Legal Opinions in Business Transactions (Excluding the Remedies Opinion).” He served as a member (1991-1994) and Treasurer (1993-1994) of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section, and as Chair of the Partnerships Committee of the Business Law Section from 1989-1990. Mr. Fotenos also served as a member of the California State Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions, known as the Killea Commission.

Jim was an advisor to the drafting committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, which prepared the Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 (known as RUPA). Jim is a frequent lecturer on partnerships and limited liability companies.

Heather Rosmarin is an associate in the Cooley Godward Business department. She joined the firm in 2003 and is resident in the Palo Alto office.

Her practice consists of general corporate and securities law matters, with an emphasis on the representation of emerging companies, venture capital funds, and public companies in the technology sector.

Ms. Rosmarin received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) in 2003, where she served as supervising editor of the California Law Review. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1993.

Ms. Rosmarin is a member of the State Bar of California.