Our law firm combines highly specialized legal expertise with business and financial acumen, which allows us to provide our clients with focused intelligence and due diligence on non-traditional investment products.
This blog was founded to better serve our clients and others active or interested in alternative investment products. Our firm has been active in alternative investments since 2001 and has expertise in real estate, oil and gas, managed futures, hedge funds, life settlements, business development companies and other asset classes. We have analyzed tens of billions of dollars in transaction volume.
The cornerstone of our firm’s practice is to provide investment research, analysis and due diligence services. Our firm has conducted active due diligence investigations of a range of investment products. We have developed substantial experience in these products through our investigation of a wide range of programs offered by many of the leading sponsors in their respective industries.
Our staff has diverse backgrounds in securities, corporate, transaction and finance law, thus enabling us to address the complex, multifaceted legal issues that typically arise in these transactions. Many of our attorneys have interdisciplinary backgrounds with experience in finance and investment banking, as well as MBA degrees and CPA designations. We also employ dedicated financial professionals to work with our core attorney staff.
Biographies
Todd Snyder is the firm’s founder and has over 20 years of legal, financial and due diligence experience with a wide variety of direct placement programs, including real estate, secured lending, oil and gas, equipment leasing, low-income housing, venture capital, hedge funds and investment advisory services. In addition to practicing corporate and securities law, Todd was formerly the Vice President of Due Diligence for H. Beck, Inc., a registered broker- dealer.
Todd is admitted to practice law in the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Maryland. Todd was awarded the Elijah Watts Sells Award with High Distinction from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Todd holds a JD, a BA in Economics and a BS in Business from the University of Maryland.
John Kearney has more than 20 years of legal and financial experience. Prior to joining the firm, John was a partner with the law firms of Blank Rome LLP and Dyer Ellis & Joseph PC and an associate with Venable LLP, where he represented clients in connection with public and private securities offerings, SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate and transactional matters.
Before entering private practice, John was a Branch Chief in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, where he supervised a staff of attorneys, accountants and financial analysts involved in the review of registration statements, periodic reports, and other filings made under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. John’s Branch was primarily responsible for filings made by REITs, other real estate programs, and equipment leasing programs.
John has also worked as an in-house attorney at a Fortune 500 energy company where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions, including acquisition due diligence. John was also a Financial Analyst with the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, where he analyzed government-assisted transactions involving troubled savings and loans.
Matt Malone has been with the firm since 2005 when he graduated from The George Washington University Law School. Matt focuses his practice on the representation of broker-dealer clients in connection with public and private offerings. Matt provides advice and counseling on regulatory, due diligence, and related issues with an emphasis on real estate, oil and gas, life settlement, and managed funds transactions. Matt is licensed to practice law in the State of Maryland and is a Level III candidate in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program.
