Dan L. Goldwasser

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New York

Dan L. Goldwasser is an attorney in the New York office of Vedder Price, where he is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School and has counseled dozens of companies (both private and public) in mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and tender offers. He is also an authority on restricted securities, representing both institutional and private investors in sales of restricted securities.

Mr. Goldwasser is the author of A Guide to Rule 144 (PLI 1978), a treatise on restricted stock sales, as well as the chapter titled "The Underwritten Offering" in the treatise Securities Law Techniques published by Matthew Bender. More recently, he wrote the chapter on audit committees in Nonprofit Governance and Management (ABA 2002). He has also written numerous position papers and comment letters for the American Bar Association’s Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, on which he has served for over 35 years. Mr. Goldwasser has chaired and appeared in numerous symposia for the ABA, the Practising Law Institute and other bar associations on corporate and securities law topics, including programs on securities law opinions, blue sky laws, sales and resales of restricted securities, and directors and officers liability. He has also chaired an ABA satellite video program on business valuations.

Mr. Goldwasser currently is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities and Law and Accounting, and he previously served on the Securities Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Committee on Corporation Law of the New York State Bar Association. He also serves on the board of directors of a public company and on its audit and compensation committees. In 2005, he was appointed as one of the five public members of the Auditing Standards Board, the senior technical committee of the AICPA with authority to publish statements of standards for the conduct of financial statement audits. The ASB statements are the authoritative standards for all non-public company audits.

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• Responding to the Handwriting on the Wall
• Parmalat Suit Against Deloitte Allowed to Move Forward
• Responding to the Handwriting on the Wall
• Capital Markets and Securities

• Accounting Law and Regulation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Commercial Litigation
• Ethical Standards
• Insurance Coverage Services for Insurance Companies
• Legal Liability
• Risk Management
• Securities Litigation
• Transactional Matters

• LL.B., Columbia Law School, 1966
• B.A., Harvard University, 1961

• New York, 1966
• U.S. District Court: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1974
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 1974

• Member, Auditing Standards Board, the senior technical committee of the AICPA, that establishes the standards for all non-public companies.
• Member, Committee on Law & Accounting of the American Bar Association