Theodore Altman has spent a majority of his professional career representing clients in the securities industry. He has an exceptionally broad range of experience. He has counseled clients on pivotal issues arising in the board room and acted as their lead counsel in the court room and before the Securities and Exchange Commission. A significant portion of his practice has been devoted to mergers and acquisitions transactions and he counts among his representations some very hard fought and well known takeover contests.

Mr. Altman has extensive experience with private and public company clients. His practice includes structuring as well as advising them on day-to-day matters, including the market and regulatory issues which arise in connection with their investment and trading activities. He has frequently been called upon to help his clients work through difficult regulatory and policy issues and has led his clients through critical governmental investigations and governmental and private litigations.

Mr. Altman has represented Carl Icahn and related companies, the Hillman Companies, Simon Properties, the Oppenheimer funds, the Piper Jaffray funds, Invesco, Founders Asset Management, the Bear Stearns hedge funds, Drexel Burnham Lambert, the directors of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter funds, and others.

Mr. Altman has written and lectured on securities, securities litigation, and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and enforcement actions. He is admitted to practice in New York State and the Southern District of New York and has appeared before and been admitted to practice in a number of other district and circuit courts throughout the country.

許可

• New York

出版物

• Co-author, "SEC Enforcement Activities," Chapter 10 in Securities Regulation Series: Federal Securities Act of 1933 (A.A. Sommer, ed., Matthew Bender, 2007)
• Co-author, "SEC Enforcement Activities," Chapter 10 in Securities Regulation Series: Federal Securities Act of 1933 (Hugh L. Sowards, ed., Matthew Bender 1999)
• Proxy Contests, Institutional Investor Initiatives, Management Responses (Practicing Law Institute, June 1990)

過往經驗

• At the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Altman headed the SEC's enforcement program for investment companies and investment advisors.