Benjamin Alexander is a corporate attorney representing start-up enterprises, venture-backed companies, family-owned businesses and publicly-traded companies in areas including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, e-commerce, securities compliance and corporate governance. Benjamin’s experience includes representing both issuers and underwriters on public offerings and private placements of securities, mergers, acquisitions, reverse mergers, IPOs, PIPEs, ’33 Act registration statements, going private transaction, equity compensation plans, contested proxy solicitations, asset based lines of credit, sales of public companies, and ’34 Act and blue sky compliance. His experience also includes counseling life science, medical technology, software, Internet and new media organizations on licensing, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as general corporate matters. He is admitted to practice law in California, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Previously, as general counsel of a public company trading on the NASDAQ Global Market, Benjamin advised the company’s management team in areas including corporate finance, corporate governance, SEC registrations and reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, employment law, litigation management, intellectual property law, licensing and contracting. Before entering the legal profession, Benjamin worked as a systems engineer, specializing in digital circuit design, programming and systems integration. JD, University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, Philadelphia, 1992 BS, Computer Science, Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia, 1989