About
Jeff Bekiares is an lawyer with over ten years of enjoy in trendy corporate, capital elevating and securities legal guidelines exercise. He began his profession at a extremely good Atlanta regulation office, training there for over six years before leaving massive organization life to emerge as the Co-founder, COO and General Counsel of SparkMarket, a Georgia based crowdfunding platform. He has worked with clients at quite a few ranges: from start-ups, to rising increase to exchange listed public agencies. He focuses on entity formation, governance, operating and shareholders agreement, commercial contract drafting, mergers & acquisitions, capital raising and all manner of transactional matters, together with asset buy, sale and leasing transactions.
Jeff has labored carefully with regulators and specialists inside the country and national crowdfunding community to design capital raising campaigns (by and large “intrastate” Invest Georgia Exemption campaigns) that are compliant and secure for issuers and traders, and his corporation SparkMarket hosted the country’s first a success securities-primarily based crowdfunding marketing campaign in U.S. records. He practices law with a philosophy primarily based at the sensible and less costly, for agencies of all sizes.
Jeff is likewise a prolific creator, speaker and notion chief in his areas of exercise and interest, and often lectures and provides content to and in reference to capital raising meetings, co-working area meetups, incubators and accelerators, establishments of higher mastering, and government corporations. He is also the practice leader in our Corporate Education & Training institution.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Securities Law
- Crowdfunding
- Mergers and Acquisitions
Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
Certificates
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
- German: Written
Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience
- Associate Lawyer
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
2006
Educations

Graduation year: 2004

Graduation year: 1998