Location doesn’t play a role in the securities business anymore. Nor dolanguage skills, apparently.
Take Miami lawyer Paul Berkowitz, who has found a niche with Germangrowth companies eyeing U.S. financial markets.
Until recently, risk-averse banks, the absence of private venture capital, and a snobbish Frankfurt stock exchange that was the exclusive playground of blue-chip companies made it nearly impossible for German startups to raise funds at home. Yet the number of technology and finance start-ups in Germany is the highest since the post-World War II years. German companies are lured by Nasdaq's vast reservoir of risk capital. And American lawyers are specializing in leading the foreign companies to the cash.
August 17, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Location doesn’t play a role in the securities business anymore. Nor dolanguage skills, apparently.
Take Miami lawyer Paul Berkowitz, who has found a niche with Germangrowth companies eyeing U.S. financial markets.
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