Kathleen L. Cerveny, Attorney

Kathleen L. Cerveny, managing partner of the Washington DC office of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, LLP, has over 23 years experience as a corporate and securities attorney representing both privately held and publicly traded entities, as well as underwriters. She has concentrated her practice on representing clients in sophisticated corporate, securities and corporate finance transactions, including serving as lead counsel in more than 100 initial and secondary public offerings of securities. She brings a unique perspective in that she has represented both the issuers of the securities as well as registered broker-dealers acting as underwriters and understands the issues facing both.

She has represented corporations in connection with their initial public offerings and regularly advises publicly-traded issuers and management on secondary offerings, business combinations, compliance with periodic reporting requirements and insider trading policies, preparation for annual and special stockholder meetings and stock exchange listings. She also counsels corporations and management regularly on corporate governance matters under the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

Her transactional practice includes mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

Ms. Cerveny received her J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1985. She was a member of the Notre Dame Law Review (Managing Editor, 1984-85) and author of Note, "Limitation Tolling When Class Status Denied: Chardon vs. Fumero Soto and Alice in Wonderland," 60 Notre Dame L. Rev. 686 (1985). She graduated cum laude from Western Michigan University in 1982 with a B.S. in Economics. She has a BV peer review rating from Martindale Hubbell.

She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Michigan.