James F. Verdonik

Biography

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 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 authored the book The ABC's of Growth Companies and a series of books titled Thinking and Acting Like an Owner-Worker.

Admitted to Practice

• North Carolina, 1985
• All state courts in North Carolina

Honors and Distinction*

• The Best Lawyers in America,1995-2012
• "Legal Elite," Business North Carolina, 2007
• "Super Lawyer," North Carolina Super Lawyers, 2006-2007

Education

• J.D., cum laude, Fordham University School of Law, 1977. Fordham Law Review.
• B.A., Fordham University, 1971

Professional and Community Affiliations

• Council for Entrepreneurial Development (former member, board of directors)
• Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce (former chairman, Venture Capital Task Force)
• National Association of Corporate Directors (former member, board of advisors for the Research Triangle Chapter)
• North Carolina Bar Association — Sections: Business Law; Corporate Counsel; Intellectual Property Law

* Please see the following websites for an explanation of the membership standards for the following recognitions: www.bestlawyers.com; www.businessnc.com/legalelite; and www.superlawyers.com/north-carolina.