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Leo Silverstein
COUNSEL

T: 212-209-3005
F: 212-371-5500
lsilverstein@reitlerlaw.com

 

 

Practice Areas

Securities
Mergers & Acquisitions

Venture Capital
Banking and Project Finance
 

 
 

Education

New York University School of Law (LL.M., 1964).

Harvard Law School (J.D. 1954).

New York University (B.A. 1951), cum laude, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Bio

Leo Silverstein was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1930. He was a member of the staff of the Army Audit Agency of the United States Army from 1954 through 1956. He served on the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission as a corporate finance attorney from 1956 through 1959. Leo joined the law firm of Borden & Ball in 1959, in which he was a partner from 1961 until 1977, when he joined the firm of Sage Gray Todd & Sims and was a partner until 1984. From 1984 to 1995 he was a partner at Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In 1995, Leo co-founded our firm.

Leo’s practice focuses on equity and debt financing, both registered public offerings and private placements, mergers and acquisitions, equity investments and general corporate representation.

He was Chairman of the Committee of Securities & Exchange of the New York County Lawyers Association from 1992 through 1996.