Albert P. Asatoorian Albert's practice focus is mergers and acquisitions, leveraged transactions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships, public offerings, public company reporting and venture capital. He has represented public and private companies in a range of industries, including digital media and entertainment, advertising, technology and telecommunications, aerospace and defense, business process outsourcing, manufacturing, life sciences and financial services. He regularly advises companies on acquisition and financing strategies and structuring matters, capital formation, business and accounting disclosure issues, executive compensation and corporate governance. Albert s transactional experience includes acquisition transactions involving both public and private targets, leveraged recapitalizations, equity and debt financings, going private transactions, cross-border acquisitions and business combinations, joint ventures, restructuring transactions, proxy contests and technology licenses. Albert has completed work on a variety of acquisitions, financings and commercial transactions for clients, including a number of Fortune 500 companies such as News Corporation (Fox Interactive Media), Intel Corporation, BNP Paribas (Bank of the West), Textron (Bell Helicopter) and Bank of America. Albert has also represented emerging growth and middle market clients in transactions with large corporations, including Starbucks, Mitsubishi Pharma Corp., Gaz de France, Compaq, Visteon and Motorola. Before joining our firm in 2005, Albert was a senior attorney at the global law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Albert was a panelist at a speaking engagement on "IPOs in 2005" sponsored through the Los Angeles Venture Association (LAVA) and served on LAVA's Investment Capital Conference Organizing Committee in 2005. Albert received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1992 and his J.D., cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1995. He is a member of the California Bar.