Christopher Kula is a counsel in the Corporate & Business Law Department at Phillips Nizer LLP where he concentrates his practice in securities, corporate finance matters, emerging companies and mergers and acquisitions.
 
Mr. Kula handles private and public offerings of equity, debt, and convertible securities, SEC periodic reports, proxy statements, and registration statements (including for both U.S. issuers and foreign private issuers), Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate governance matters, stock-based mergers, reorganizations, or transactions and general corporate matters, as well as occasionally advising on broker-dealer and investment adviser regulatory matters.  Mr. Kula also has experience with structuring and drafting operating agreements of limited liability companies (for operating businesses, joint ventures and investment vehicles), and with private investment fund formation (domestic) and transactional matters regarding hedge funds, private equity funds (including secondary transfers), venture capital funds, and real estate funds.  Mr. Kula has represented private and public companies at various stages of development in the healthcare, technology, Internet, finance, publishing, fashion, energy, and organic food industries.

As a supplement to his primary focus, Mr. Kula also handles technology related matters including software license agreements, website development agreements, maintenance and service agreements, domain name transfer agreements, as well as terms of use and privacy policies for websites.
 
Mr. Kula received his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the International Law Digest. While in law school during the summer of 2000, he was a judicial intern for the Honorable Lawrence M. McKenna in the Southern District of New York.  Prior to law school, Mr. Kula attended Villanova University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Publications:

• Author, “My Business Needs More Money!, The Giggle Guide, June 2013
• Co-author, "A Guide to Crowdfunding for Companies Seeking to Raise Capital", A publication of the Securities Law Practice, Phillips Nizer LLP, June 2012
• Co-author, “Proposed Regulation of Private Investment Funds and their Advisers”, The Market Maker, The Alliance of Alternative Asset Professionals Newsletter (Volume 1, Issue 4), November 12, 2009

Association Program Chairmanships & Speaking Engagements:

• New York City Startup Seminar - Mercy College Entrepreneurship Institute | Founder / VC Speaker Series: "Launching a Successful Venture" (October 2012)
• New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), International Section, Co-Chair, "Cross Border Transactions, Business Formations and Investments: Legal Aspects, Business Trends and How Lawyers Can Add Value" Seminar (September 2010)
• New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), International Section, Co-Chair, "Second Annual Fundamentals of International Practice" CLE Program (April 2010)
• New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), International Section, Co-Chair, "First Annual Fundamentals of International Practice" CLE Program (April 2009)

Social Media:

• LinkedIn Profile

Professional Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association
  - Co-Chair, International Section's Committee on International Investment 
  - Member, International Section's Executive Committee
  - Member, Business Law Section
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Association for Corporate Growth (ACG)