Mr. Verdonik's practice experience focuses on corporate and securities law, including both transactional and counseling work. His transactional work includes public and private securities offerings, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate partnership transactions on behalf of both public and private companies. Mr. Verdonik has advised companies in more than a billion dollars of capital raising transactions. He has extensive experience with clients in both the biotechnology and information technology industries. Mr. Verdonik regularly counsels boards of directors, company founders, management teams, shareholders, and investors in public and private companies about their relationships with one another on matters that include director fiduciary duties, shareholder rights, corporate governance, securities disclosure issues, management compensation, and conflicts of interest. He has received the Council for Entrepreneurial Development's "Outstanding Service Provider Award" and the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce's "Outstanding Service to the Business Community Award." Mr. Verdonik is recognized in "Legal Elite," a list of the best attorneys in the state by Business North Carolina, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and has been rated by his peers as being "preeminent" in his fields of law. He writes a column about business and legal issues for Triangle Business Journal, which has been republished by two dozen newspapers around the country, including in the country's primary technology centers, such as Boston and Silicon Valley. Mr. Verdonik has served on advisory boards to two governors about state policies to encourage the growth of technology businesses. He authored North Carolina's current statute that grants tax credits to investors in technology companies and other entrepreneurial businesses. Mr. Verdonik also operates two websites as information resources for members of boards of directors (www.BoardStrategies.com) and for founders of young technology companies (www.TecCoach.com).
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