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Richard M. Leisner

After many decades of law practice, legal veteran Richard M. Leisner, a Senior Member in the Trenam law firm in Tampa, found that increasingly he has been called upon to be a sounding board and resource on proposed corporate transactions. In the following guest post, which is the third installment in a three-part series, Richie recounts a number of “open door encounters” – that is, occasions when colleagues came to his office to discuss pending matters. There are a number of important lessons from the tales described below. A version of this article previously was published in Trenam Law News & Insights, available at www.trenam.com. I would like to thank Richie for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Richie’s article. Continue Reading Guest Post: Corporate Governance Tales From (Virtual) Open Door Encounters – Part 3

Richard M. Leisner

After many decades of law practice, legal veteran Richard M. Leisner, a Senior Member in the Trenam law firm in Tampa, found that increasingly he has been called upon to be a sounding board and resource on proposed corporate transactions. In the following guest post, which is the second installment in a three-part series, Richie recounts a number of “open door encounters” – that is, occasions when colleagues came to his office to discuss pending matters. There are a number of important lessons from the tales described below. A version of this article previously was published in Trenam Law News & Insights, available at www.trenam.com. I would like to thank Richie for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Richie’s article. Continue Reading Guest Post: Corporate Governance Tales from (Virtual) Open Door Encounters – Part 2

Richard M. Leisner

After many decades of law practice, legal veteran Richard M. Leisner, a Senior Member in the Trenam law firm in Tampa, found that increasingly he has been called upon to be a sounding board and resource on proposed corporate transactions. In the following guest post, which is the first installment in a three-part series, Richie recounts a number of “open door encounters” – that is, occasions when colleagues came to his office to discuss pending matters. There are a number of important lessons from the tales described below. A version of this article previously was published in Trenam Law News & Insights, available at www.trenam.com. I would like to thank Richie for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Richie’s article. Continue Reading Guest Post: Corporate Governance Tales From (Virtual) Open Door Encounters – Part 1

As one of my year-end features on this site, I published in late December a post with my Top Ten favorite pictures from my travels during 2019. In the same post, I also invited readers to send in their favorite pictures from their own 2019 travels, with the idea that I would post the readers’ pictures here, on this blog. Last week, I published the first installment of readers’ travel pictures. Today, I am very happy to publish the second set of readers’ pictures. There are some great pictures in this set. Continue Reading More of Readers’ 2019 Travel Pictures 

Richie Leisner

In the following guest post, Richard M. Leisner, a Senior Member in the Trenam law firm in Tampa, takes a look at an unusual and interesting recent decision from the Delaware Chancery Court, Stacey Kotler v. Shipman Associates, LLC (here). Regardless of where you sit, this decision is worth consideration, as the parties had a fully executed stock purchase agreement yet as a result of the court’s decision the intended beneficiary came up empty. As Richie points out, there are some important lessons from this decision. I would like to thank Richie for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to publish a guest post. Here is Richie’s article. Continue Reading Guest Post: Can a Fully Executed Contract be Unenforceable?

Richard M. Leisner

In the following guest post, Richard M. Leisner, a senior member in the Trenam law firm in  the firm’s Tampa office, takes a look at a recent Sixth Circuit decision that, as Richie puts it, “has important lessons for both expert witnesses and attorneys who hire experts.” I would like to thank Richie for allowing me to publish his article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this blog’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is Richie’s guest post. Continue Reading Guest Post: Your Expert Witness May Not Be an Expert – At Being an Expert Witness

frisbeeThe time has come to publish the first round of Frisbee Photos! Readers may recall that in connection with The D&O Diary’s recent tenth anniversary, I offered to send out a D&O Diary tenth anniversary Frisbee to anyone who requested one – for free — but only if the Frisbee recipient agreed to send me back a picture of the Frisbee and a description of the circumstances in which the picture was taken.

 

We have mailed out dozens and dozens of Frisbees (and I would be remiss if I did not pause here to express my thanks to Mrs. D&O Diary, who organized the Frisbee mailing process). The early picture returns are starting to come in. If the first batch of pictures is any indication, the collective Frisbee photos will constitute a formidable gallery. Here a few pictures culled from the first batch. Continue Reading First Round of Tenth Anniversary Frisbee Photos

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Richard M. Leisner

In August 6, 2015, the SEC Division of Corporation Finance issued an interpretive letter to Citizen VC concerning exempt private offerings under Rule 506(b).  In the following guest post, Richard M. Leisner takes a look at the SEC’s new interpretive guidance for these types of exempt offerings and suggests how best practices might evolve for permissible general solicitation activities in future Rule 506(b) private offerings that will not violate the prohibitions of Rule 502(c).  Leisner is a shareholder with the Tampa office of Trenam Law.  The article summarized below is scheduled for publication in Securities Regulation Law Journal, Summer 2016 Edition, a Thomson Reuters Publication. For more information about this publication please visit www.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com.  This article also is posted on the Trenam Law website Legal Update available here. Continue Reading Guest Post: General Solicitation Under Rule 506(b) After Citizen VC: Guiding Principles and Best Practices

The varied travels of the time-honored D&O Diary mug have continued, with appearances here, there and everywhere.

 

Readers will recall that in a recent post, I offered to send out to anyone who requested one a D&O Diary coffee mug – for free – but only if the mug recipient agreed to send me back a picture of the mug and a description of the circumstances in which the picture was taken. In previous posts (here, here, here, here, here, here,  here, and here), I published prior rounds of readers’ pictures. The pictures have continued to arrive and I have posted the latest round below.

 

One reaction I often have when reviewing readers’ mug shots is a recurring wish that I had been present for the reader’s photo shoot. That was certainly my reaction when I viewed the first of today’s featured pictures. The first photo comes to us from loyal reader Mary Irvin of Columbia, South Carolina who sent in this warm picture of her D&O Diary mug in the October sunshine amidst the grapevines at the Opus One winery in Napa Valley, California.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We received quite a number of pictures this time around taken at sporting venues. The first of these sporting pictures comes to us from Mike Parry of Marsh in London, who took a number of mug shots at St. Andrews in Scotland. The picture below is a classic shot of the Swilcan Bridge, with the famous 18th hole of the Old Course in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our good friend Bill Hopkins of AIG Cat Excess Liability also sent in some golf course pictures, including the one below taken at Stowe, Vermont.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laura Burke of Lockton also chose a sporting venue for her mug shot. Laura reports that she took this picture from the RT Specialty suite at Soldier Field in Chicago. The picture was jointly submitted by the Lockton Financial Services Team in Chicago with special thanks to Jon Reiner of RT Specialty for taking them to the Bears game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently inspired by The D&O Diary’s recent travelogue about Lisbon, Richie Leisner of the Trenam Kemker law firm in Tampa sent in this picture of his D&O Diary mug displayed with a number of Lisbon souvenirs. (My Lisbon blog post includes a picture of the actual streetcar to which the souvenir streetcar in the picture below corresponds.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It wouldn’t be a D&O Diary mug shot gallery without a picture from Asia. This installment’s Asia picture comes to us from Enoch Zhou of AIG in Shanghai. Enoch sent in the great picture taken in the  ancient town in Shanghai called Nanxiang. Enoch pointed out something which I had not noticed before, which is that The D&O Diary mugs were made in China. Enoch noted that the mugs had traveled all the way to the U.S. and then back to China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I have to say, it is so much fun seeing the different places that people have taken their D&O Diary mugs and the great pictures that they have sent back. I never cease to be amazed when people lug their mugs all around the map just to be able to send back a blogworthy mug shot. My thanks to everyone who has sent in a picture.

 

If there are readers out there who want a mug and have not yet ordered one, I still have some mugs left. If you would like one, just drop me a note and I will be happy to send one along to you. Just remember that if you order a mug, you have to send back a picture. Also, please be patient if you order a mug, it may take a few days for me to get your mug in the mail.