Bio

Howard Kern has over 30 years of broad corporate law experience, including over 8 years at major law firms in New York and Los Angeles and over 3 years as Assistant General Counsel for a public merchant banking company located in California. Mr. Kern also has strong business and strategic experience working as outside general counsel for early-stage companies and as a key member of the team for several hedge funds.

Mr. Kern has extensive experience negotiating and documenting mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, venture capital transactions, and a broad range of corporate agreements, including operating agreements, strategic partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, and employment and consulting agreements.

Mr. Kern graduated from Rutgers College (B.A.), and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D.), where he was an editor on the Law Review, graduating with High Honors. Mr. Kern is the recipient of an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale Hubbell.