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Joshua Apfelroth

Joshua Apfelroth is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group.

Josh’s practice involves advising a diversified mix of corporations, private equity funds, hedge funds, investment bank and family office clients on complex corporate transactional issues, including public and private mergers acquisitions and dispositions, corporate governance, contests for corporate control, tender and exchange offers, spinoffs and joint ventures.  Josh also advises growth companies and investors in connection with venture capital and other alternative investments.  In addition, Josh advises clients on complex transactions involving distressed companies and assets, including restructurings, financings, investments, and mergers and acquisitions.

Josh represents clients across a broad range of industries, including in the technology, cybersecurity, media and entertainment, pharmaceutical, real estate, financial services, consumer goods and transportation sectors.  Clients trust Josh to serve as a day-to-day legal advisor advising them on a wide array of governance, securities and other commercial matters, including directors’ duties and responsibilities, board composition, public disclosure, and legal compliance.

Josh also represents issuers, underwriters and selling stockholders in connection with public and private securities offerings.

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Shorter Filing Deadlines and Expanded Disclosure  

New Guidance on “Group” Formation and Cash Settled Derivative Securities

On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The adopting release is available here (the “Adopting Release”).[1] These rules require investors that beneficially own more than 5% of a public company’s equity securities to publicly disclose their beneficial ownership and other related information in either a Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G. The SEC’s rule changes: