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Corporate/M&A & Private Equity - Florida: South
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Jonathan Awner maintains an impressive private equity practice and is also highly sought after for his handling of M&A.
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Provided by Jonathan L Awner
Jonathan Awner is co-chair of Akerman's Corporate Practice Group. He advises clients in automotive retail, aviation, distribution, hospitality, logistics, manufacturing, services, technology, waste management, and other industries. Jonathan focuses on middle-market domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, public and private securities transactions, and corporate governance matters. He also has extensive experience representing strategic and financial buyers and investors, as well as corporate, individual, and family sellers. Jonathan represents public companies in public offerings of equity and debt securities, and securities law compliance matters. He has served as lead counsel to issuers in numerous underwritten offerings, and also advises companies and investor groups in private placements of equity and debt securities, growth equity investments and joint ventures. Jonathan is a trusted advisor to boards of directors, audit and special board committees, and senior executives of public companies on corporate governance issues, management succession, institutional and activist investor relations, compensation practices for directors and officers, conflict of interest matters, and change-of-control transactions. His committee representations include leading investigations of alleged management misconduct, whistleblower complaints, stock option backdating, accounting irregularities, auditor resignations, violations of securities laws including insider trading, and responding to shareholder activists alleging poor operating performance or excessive compensation.
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Jonathan Awner maintains an impressive private equity practice and is also highly sought after for his handling of M&A.
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"Jonathan truly understands our needs, is incredibly insightful and is an expert in his field."
"Jonathan truly understands our needs, is incredibly insightful and is an expert in his field."