The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce (“NJCC”) announced recently that W. Raymond Felton, Co-Managing Partner of the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP (“GRSD”), had been elected to a three year term on its Board of Directors, along with 11 other business leaders. Mr. Felton is a member of the NJCC Cornerstone Group.

Mr. Felton is Chair of the Corporate Department at GRSD. His practice focuses in the areas of corporate, LLC and securities law with an emphasis on mergers & acquisitions and financing transactions through both the public and private equity and debt markets. He represents start-up and emerging companies in many industries including high-tech, as well as a number of mature and established companies. Mr. Felton also represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings and counsels clients concerning corporate governance and SEC compliance issues such as Sarbanes Oxley. He has represented clients in a number of corporate reorganizations, joint ventures, and similar matters, and provides general counseling advice to a number of the firm’s clients.

Mr. Felton has been selected to a number of peer reviewed legal and business directories. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1994 in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate and Securities Law sections; in Chambers USA - America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2003, in the Corporate/M&A practice area; in Super Lawyers - New Jersey Edition in the Mergers & Acquisitions category. Mr. Felton is the former chair and continuing member of the Board of Directors of the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and he is member of the Section on Business Law of the American Bar Association as well as being a member of the Middlesex County Bar Association.

Mr. Felton is the author of numerous articles on business law topics and wrote the book, Organization and Sale of Small Businesses, for the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, where he has also been a lecturer. He has been quoted on business law issues in the Wall Street Journal and NJBIZ, among other publications.

Mr. Felton is a graduate of Rutgers College and Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, NJ.

Mr. Felton is a resident of Warren, New Jersey.

In 2010 Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP celebrates its 96th year of building business in New Jersey. The firm has over 100 attorneys in four main practice departments: Litigation; Real Estate; Corporate; and Tax, Trusts and Estates. The firm has offices located in Woodbridge and Roseland, New Jersey. For more information, call Erin P. Faltin at 732-549-5600 or visit the firm's web site at www.greenbaumlaw.com.

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