STUART B. NEWMAN has been engaged in corporate and securities practice for over thirty years, focusing on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and capital formation through public offerings, and private placements.

Stuart studies his client's businesses thoroughly and has made valuable contributions on a broad range of business topics such as joint ventures, product development, finance, investment banking, marketing and personnel. In addition, Stuart has developed a network of business, professional and financial contacts which have been of assistance to him and his clients on numerous occasions. For example, following the creation of the Resolution Trust Corporation, Stuart applied his experience in automobile finance transactions to assist a client in the automobile leasing industry to develop a program and format for the purchase of auto loan and lease portfolios from banks which had been taken over by the RTC. Ultimately, over $100 million in secured consumer loans and leases were acquired in this program.

Clients within Stuart's expertise include restaurant groups, internet companies, automobile dealerships and auto finance companies.

After earning degrees from Columbia University and its School of Law (A.B., 1961; J.D., Cum Laude 1964), Stuart served as Law Clerk to Judge Harold R. Tyler, Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (1964-1965). He is a member of the New York State and Florida Bars.

Stuart has lectured at Cardozo Law School on mergers and acquisitions, and has taught a course in business law at Fordham University School of Law as part of their Continuing Legal Education Program. He also lectures in the area of securities regulation and serves as Program Chairman of a continuing legal education seminar sponsored every two years by the New York State Association concerning Going Public. In addition, Stuart is Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the New York Business Law Journal, a publication of the Business Law Section of the Bar Association, and an active member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section. He is the author of several published articles including Insider Trading and Corporate Disclosure Rules in the Wake of Carpenter and Basic (1988) and An Overview of Disclosure under the Securities Laws (1994).

His professional service includes: member, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Committees on: Medicine and Law, Uniform State Laws; New York State Bar, member of Committee on Securities Regulation, Executive Committee of the Association's Business Law Section; and American Bar Association, member, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities.