Craig Effrain

Craig Effrain, Esq.

Business / Contracts, Business Formation, Nonprofits, Securities, Startups (Transactional)

New York, New York

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Personal Introduction

Craig H. Effrain has over twenty years of corporate legal experience representing and helping clients achieve their objectives. Mr. Effrain has worked for both law firms and corporations, serving as Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of the health insurance company EmblemHealth and as an associate of law firms, including Stursberg & Veith and Pomeranz, Gottlieb & Mushkin, providing corporate law and general business counsel to a host of clients, including startup ventures, established businesses, not-for-profit entities and public companies

Practice Composition

Transactional

Education

New York University School of Law
New York University School of Law Masters Degree, Corporate & Securities Law (1994)
The London School of Economics and Political Science
The London School of Economics and Political Science Certificate in Economics (1989)
University of Maryland
University of Maryland B.A. (1989)

Practice Summary

• Draft and negotiate business and vendor agreements, including professional service arrangements, licensing, data privacy, master agreements, SaaS, investment banking engagement agreements, consulting, NDAs, non-circumvention and other types of agreements. • Structure, prepare and negotiate stock and asset purchase agreements and transactions. • Provide securities regulatory counsel, including preparation of offering documents and SEC filings. • Negotiate, review and/or draft various promissory and convertible notes and related instruments, including SAFE notes. • Provide counsel on startup matters, including entity and capital structure, shareholder/operating agreements, stock purchase agreements and consulting/advisory agreements. • Review, draft and negotiate commercial real estate leases. • Provide corporate governance counsel, including preparation of board resolutions and minutes. • Prepare, and provide counsel on, compliance policies (including terms of use and privacy) and operations. • Provide counsel on nonprofit formation and matters. • Prepared IPO of a technology company and a finance company. • Advised on numerous private capital fundraising transactions. • Assisted with certain mergers & acquisitions. • Structured and prepared conversion of non-profit company into for profit, public enterprise.

Response Time

2 days

Client Reviews

5.00/5.0 Aggregate Score (13 reviews)

Bar Admissions

New Jersey, New York

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