SEC Issues Proposal on Crowdfunding
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had issued the long-awaited proposed rules that would allow private companies to use
Mr. Learned’s practice focuses on advising clients on general corporate and transactional matters, including company formation and governance, mergers and acquisitions, operating and stockholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, private offerings of debt and equity securities (including friends and family, angel, venture capital and private equity investments), corporate divorces and other reorganizations, small business certifications (including 8(a), SDVO, WOSB, HUB Zone and MBE/DBE certifications), executive employment and equity matters, franchise agreements, vendor and customer issues, and other commercial contracts and agreements.
Mr. Learned has extensive experience working with emerging growth companies, particularly information technology and other professional service providers in both the commercial and federal spaces. Mr. Learned has been an adjunct professor at the George Mason University School of Law, has served on the Advisory Council of INCspire, the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce Incubator Program, and is a frequent lecturer on topics related to corporate and transactional matters.
Mr. Learned began his practice in the Washington, DC office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP as a member of that firm’s Investment Management group. Mr. Learned then joined Shaw Pittman LLP (which later merged into what is now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), where he was a member of that firm’s Corporate & Securities Technology practice group in both the Washington, DC and McLean, VA offices. Mr. Learned then chaired the Corporate Practice Group of General Counsel, P.C. in McLean, VA. Mr. Learned joined Reston Law Group, LLP when McMahon, Welch and Learned, PLLC, a firm he co-founded, merged with the firm previously known as David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP. Mr. Learned currently serves as the Managing Partner of Reston Law Group, LLP.
Bar Admissions
New York, 1999
District of Columbia, 2000
Virginia, 2006
Education
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1998
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
Associate Editor, The University of Chicago Legal Forum
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1995
B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Cum Laude
Major: International Affairs
Minors: Economics and Business Administration
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