Richard Galin

Richard Galin practices primarily in the fields of corporate, real estate, and securities law, financial institution regulation, digital currency-related laws, money transmission laws, and business contracts. As a corporate lawyer, Mr. Galin works closely with clients and deals regularly with regulatory authorities on a wide range of matters involving corporate mergers, acquisitions, and takeover defenses; corporate governance; fiduciary duties of directors and officers; commercial real estate transactions; securities law registration, disclosure, and compliance; regulatory issues affecting banks and other financial institutions; complex commercial contracts and transactions; executive compensation; digital currency structuring and regulatory issues; business expansions and contractions; indemnification agreements; and tax-exempt bond financings.

In addition to Mr. Galin’s private securities law practice, he is an Arbitrator with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the largest securities-industry self-regulatory organization in the U.S.

Mr. Galin began his distinguished legal career as an attorney with the Office of the Comptroller of Currency in Washington, D.C., in the Securities & Corporate Practices Division, before moving to private practice in Los Angeles where he was a partner in a prominent California law firm. Prior to his practice in Nevada, Mr. Galin practiced law for six years in Tokyo, Japan as a gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi (specially-licensed foreign lawyer) with a large, international business law firm.

Mr. Galin authors a “Business Contracts and Raising Capital” blog – at richardgalin.com – where he discusses how to avoid legal pitfalls in the world of business and finance and how to navigate laws governing securities offerings and capital-raising.

Professional or Trade Affiliations:

• Chairman, State Bar of Nevada Administrative Law Section
• Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
• Organizer and Founding Director of the Las Vegas Jewish Chamber of Commerce
• Honorary Director of the Japan America Society of Nevada
• Member, State Bar of Nevada Transitioning Into Practice Standing Committee
• Former Chairman, Beverly Hills Bar Association Business Law Section

Publications:

• “Seven Pitfalls to Avoid When Negotiating Business Contracts,” Nevada Business Magazine, 2014
• Author of “Business Contracts and Raising Capital” blog – at richardgalin.com – discussing how to avoid legal pitfalls in business and finance and how to navigate laws governing securities offerings and capital-raising.
  Mr. Galin’s articles include:
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Letters Of Intent
  • Capital-Raising: Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
  • Serve Proudly, … But With An Indemnification Agreement!
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Due Diligence
  • You Might Have “Knowledge” And Not Even Know It (And Other Crazy Things)
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Noncompetition Clauses
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Automatic Renewals
  • Why Is It So Expensive?!?
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Sales Tax
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – Intellectual Property
  • Top Ten Pitfalls In Negotiating And Drafting Business Contracts – “Best Efforts”

Speaking Engagements:

• Keynote Speaker, Japan America Society of Nevada – “An American Attorney’s Six Years in Japan – Never a Dull Moment!!”

Representative Experience:

Served as lead counsel to all of the following:

• Public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions and contests for corporate control
• Public companies and investors in SEC registration, reporting and compliance matters, particularly for companies and investors in the gaming industry
• A wide range of companies in public and private financings and capital raising
• Real estate development and investment groups
• Multinational digital currency developers and service providers
• Banks and other financial institutions in capital-raising, regulatory and enforcement matters
• Investors and company management in corporate governance and shareholder relations matters
• Leading manufacturing companies in establishing distributorships, dealerships and other business networks
• Medical and other health care groups for business operations and contract negotiations
• Private parties in dealings with securities licensing and regulatory authorities
• Charter schools and nonprofit foundations in tax-exempt bond offerings and campus acquisitions

Admitted to Practice:

• Nevada
• District of Columbia
• California (inactive)

Education:

• Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor, cum laude
• Long Island University, Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude (Accounting)