Graham R. Laub

Mr. Laub's practice involves representing issuers and stockholders in public and private offerings of securities; public reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other securities laws compliance issues; mergers and acquisitions (both public and private transactions); and corporate governance matters for public companies and their officers and directors including Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance. Mr. Laub has also represented clients whom include seasoned public companies and private companies, as well as their shareholders.

Representative Experience

• Acquirer of the major Philadelphia daily newspapers
• Publicly-held bank in reorganizing into a bank holding company and concurrent stock and cash merger with another publicly-held bank holding company
• Selling shareholders in the sale of a customs broker to a private equity portfolio company
• Private company in a stock and cash merger that created the largest association of independent truck leasing companies in the United States and Canada
• Stockholders of a fitness company in the recapitalization and partial sale to a private equity fund
• Buyer of the assets of a window and door manufacturing business from a major private equity firm
• Fortune 100 company in the sale of its retail fuel delivery division
• Startup company providing a pay-by-text solution in raising capital from angel investors.

Professional & Community Activities

• Philadelphia Bar Association (Chair, Securities Regulation Committee)
• Philadelphia Bar Association (Former Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee)
• Philadelphia Bar Association (Executive Committee Member, Business Law Section)
• American Bar Association
• Philadelphia Region Selection Committee of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation (Co-Chair) 
• Association for Corporate Growth

Speeches & Presentations

• Presenter, SEC Hot Topics: Matrixx and Other Cases Involving Materiality, RR Donnelley Annual Hot Topics Institute, Philadelphia, PA, September 21, 2011
• Speaker, "Financial Fraud CLE Program," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2010
• Course Planner, "Due Diligence in Business Transactions CLE," Philadelphia Bar Association, 2010
• Panel moderator, "Public Company Compensation Disclosure Update: An Update on the SEC's Guidance in Response to the 2007 Proxy Season and Issuers' Responses," 2007
• Faculty member, "Fundamentals of PA Business Corporation Practice," 2007

Professional Recognition

• Named 2010 Chair of the Year by the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association

• Proposed Rules Affect Which Investors Are 'Accredited'

• Social Networking Breakfast Series