
Paul D. Chestovich
Partner
f612.642.8305
paul.chestovich@maslon.com
3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Paul Chestovich is a partner in Maslon's Business & Securities Group. He represents large national businesses and small closely held businesses in a variety of commercial transactional work, including general corporate, contracts, business advising, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, securities regulation, securities offerings and financing transactions. He regularly counsels clients in a variety of industries who are forming new businesses in corporate, limited liability company and partnership forms. In addition, Paul has particular experience with the formation and operation of venture-capital funds, hedge funds and other investment funds. He has extensive experience in reverse merger and shell merger transactions, self-filing methods of going public, alternative public offerings and complex and unique investment transactions. Paul is also the founder of the Small Public Company Forum (www.smallpubcoforum.com), a unique organization and microsite focused on providing relevant information on topics impacting small public companies.
- Business & Securities
- Business Counseling
- Closely Held Businesses
- Growth Businesses
- Independent Director Services
- Investment and Hedge Funds
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Private Equity
- Private Placements
- Public Offerings
- Public Company Securities Compliance
- Sustainable Business & Social Enterprise
- University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
2000
J.D.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: Order of the Coif
Honors: Civil Rights Moot Court, 1998-2000
Honors: Best Legal Brief, National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition - University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas,
1997
M.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Major: Classics - St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota,
1994
B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
Major: History
Major: Medieval Studies
Major: Classical Languages
- Minnesota, 2000
- American Bar Association, 2002 - Present - Member
- Minnesota State Bar Association, 2000 - Present - Member
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Saint Paul, 1998 - 2002 - Volunteer
- Proxy Season Preview: Don't Get Caught Unprepared, Small Public Company Forum, January 2010
- 404 Error - File Not Found: Practice Advice on Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Compliance, Small Public Company Forum - the Inaugural Event, June 2009
- SEC Issues Update, "Delisting, Deregistration and Going Dark", Bowne of Minnesota, May 21, 2009
- Resale Registrations: Pipeline to the Public Markets, SEC Issues Update Conference, Minneapolis, 2002
- Observations on the Insured's Right to Select Counsel, Construction Law Institute, Minnesota Institute of Legal Education, 2000
- Minnesota Rising Stars