Attorney Lapera has participated in numerous corporate transactions, including:
Counsel for a holding company which completed a $100 million reorganization and demerger to separate domestic companies from foreign companies.
Counsel for a start-up solar energy company for $3 million in round one venture funding.
Counsel for a $3 million holding company which completed the sale of a synthetic column division.
Counsel for a company which completed the purchase and financing of a synthetic molding division.
Counsel for a real estate entity in the defeasance of a $4 million tax exempt financing (IDB bonds) and the conventional refinancing of a manufacturing facility.
Counsel for a transportation services company which completed a tax free reorganization to separate the trucking company from the transportation services company.
Counsel for Connecticut municipalities and tax exempt economic development agencies for funding grants and construction projects.
Bond Co-Counsel for Connecticut municipalities for the issuance of General Obligation Bonds and Bond Anticipation Notes.
Counsel for construction and real estate development companies for the preparation and negotiation of construction and/or construction management agreements.
Attorney Lapera received his Juris Doctor degree Cum Laude from Syracuse University College of Law in 1980. He served as Managing Editor of the Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce, was a member of the Justinian Honor Society and a research assistant for Professor Martin Fried, author of Taxation of Securities Transactions, Volume IIB, Matthew Bender. He also received his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1980 and graduated from the University of Scranton in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Accounting and Political Science. Attorney Lapera is admitted to practice in Connecticut and New York. He has lectured on corporate planning and ethics, including seminars sponsored by WESFACCA.
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