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W. Raymond Felton is co-managing partner of the firm and chair of its Corporate Department and Technology Practice Group. Mr. Felton concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and securities law. He has had extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers of small and medium-sized businesses as well as handling their financing transactions. These transactions include equity offerings and borrowings from banks and from private parties. His clients include start-up and emerging companies in a number of industries including high-tech, as well as more mature and established companies. In addition, Mr. Felton has significant experience in securities law, primarily representing issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings and in market regulation compliance. He has also represented a number of financial institutions in both lending and loan servicing transactions. He has been involved in a number of corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and similar matters, and he provides general counseling advice to a number of the firm’s clients. Mr. Felton is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Securities. He is also listed in Chambers USA - America’s Leading Business Lawyers guide as a leading individual in the Corporate/M&A practice area. Mr. Felton is a graduate of Rutgers College, New Brunswick (1978). He received his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1981 from Rutgers Law School in Newark, where he served as Research Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. He has practiced with the firm since 1981 and became a partner in 1988. Mr. Felton is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, its Section on Business Law, and the Middlesex County Bar Association. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Section on Business Law of the New Jersey State Bar Association and served as chair of that Section from 2002-2004. He is also a lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) and the author of Organization and Sale of Small Businesses, published by ICLE in 1995, and updated biannually through 2007, and numerous articles in various publications. Mr. Felton is admitted to practice in New Jersey, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Tax Court. | 