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David J. Polgreen 
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david.polgreen@maslon.com

3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

David Polgreen is a partner in Maslon's Business & Securities Group. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private placements and public offerings of securities, and general counseling of corporate clients. David represents public companies in connection with initial public offerings, acquisitions and securities compliance, as well as numerous private clients in private placements, acquisitions, asset sales, joint ventures, and other transactions. David has extensive experience representing early-stage companies in connection with business formation issues, financing transactions (from the angel investor stage all the way up to late-round institutional investor financing) and general business matters, including employment, licensing, intellectual property, and business planning issues. He also advises shareholders of closely held businesses in connection with shareholder disputes.

Areas of Practice
  • Business & Securities
  • Business Counseling
  • Closely Held Businesses
  • Growth Businesses
  • Intellectual Property Counseling
  • Management and Leveraged Buyouts
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Private Placements
  • Public Offerings
  • Public Company Securities Compliance
  • Entertainment and Media
Education
  • New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 2000
    J.D.
    Law Review: New York University Law Review, 1999 - 2000
  • St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1997
    B.A.
    Major: Philosophy/History of Math & Science
Bar Admissions
  • Minnesota, 2002
  • New York, 2000
Professional Associations and Memberships
  • American Bar Association - Member
  • Minnesota State Bar Association - Member
  • Hennepin County Bar Association - Member
  • Ramsey County Bar Association - Member
  • Minnesota Black Lawyers Association - Member
  • New York State Bar Association - Member
Honors and Awards
  • Recognized on Minnesota Rising Stars® list, 2007 (Minnesota Rising Stars® is a designation given to only 2.5 percent of Minnesota attorneys each year.)

Experience

David has represented many publicly held companies in connection with merger transactions, initial public offerings, debt offerings, and Securities Exchange Act reporting, including the following:

  • Global Traffic Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNET), a provider of traffic and news information reports to radio and television statements in international markets, in connection with its $21 million initial public offering in May 2006 and its July 2007 secondary offering of $28 million of common stock.
  • Hana Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: HNAB), a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, in its May 2006 registered direct offering of $40 million of common stock.
  • WPT Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: WPTE), a media and entertainment company engaged in the development, production, and marketing of televised programming based on gaming themes and the operation of an online gaming website, in connection with its $32 million initial public offering in August 2004.
  • Liberty Enterprises, Inc., a check printing and financial services company, in connection with the sale of Liberty to John H. Harland Company (NYSE: JH)for $160 million in June 2005.
  • U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray in connection with its underwriting of a $60 million debt offering for Community First Bankshares, Inc.
  • AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE: AHS), a company offering traveling nurse services, in connection with their $170 million initial public offering in November 2001.
  • Liz Claiborne, Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) in connection with its acquisition of Mexx Group BV, a closely held fashion concern in the Netherlands.
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