Michael Jurasic has over 25 years of experience in all areas of state securities (“Blue Sky”) laws and related areas of federal securities laws applicable to registered and exempt securities offerings and on regulatory matters concerning the activities of broker-dealers and investment advisers.
As head of the firm’s Blue Sky practice, he represents issuers (including start-up companies, operating companies, hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds) and underwriters in Blue Sky law issues relating to state regulatory filings (including registrations, applications, exemption notices, and requests for interpretative letters or no-action advice) and necessary follow-up (including monitoring activities and regulatory reports) on a wide range of securities offerings, including private pooled fund offerings by sponsors of private equity funds and hedge funds, private equity transactions (including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other direct investments), registered investment company offerings, municipal bond offerings, exchange offers, corporate private placements and offerings and grants of employee benefit plan interests.
Mike has extensive experience advising broker-dealers on matters arising under federal and state securities laws and self-regulatory organizational rules, including supervisory and compliance policies and procedures, mergers and acquisitions, business expansions, regulatory inquiries, examinations and investigations, enforcement matters, internal compliance reviews, financial and operational matters and disclosure issues. In addition, he routinely provides advice to investment advisers on registrations, exemptions, and notice filings under state securities laws.
Mike is one of the leading Blue Sky practitioners in the country and is the current Chairman of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Committee on the State Regulation of Securities.