Mr. Rappoport advises financial institutions and their holding companies and other public and private entities in structuring, negotiating and executing complex corporate transactions.

Mr. Rappoport has extensive experience in a wide variety of capital raising transactions, representing issuers and underwriters in initial and secondary public offerings and private placements.  He has represented numerous companies in business combination transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, debt redemptions and holding company reorganizations.

Mr. Rappoport advises clients on a variety of other matters, in addition to his corporate and securities transactions work.  These include:

• Trust preferred securities redemptions and exchanges
• Public company disclosure requirements
• The design of corporate governance systems and structures
• Corporate law matters
• Internal investigations
• Bank regulatory issues