Joseph D Carney

A highly experienced attorney with a broad spectrum of legal expertise and extensive track record of success in Securities, Corporate, Business, Real Estate, and Construction Law. Strengths include specialized knowledge of broker-dealers, investment managers, investment companies, insurance securities, investment advisers. Extensive experience with private placements, entrepreneurial ventures, venture capital, and private equity. Helps starts-ups to $Billion dollar entities with financing rounds, offerings, and planning. Additional qualifications include accounting investigations and related securities investigations and litigation. Corporate Law skills in M & A, financing transactions. Extensive real estate skills as counsel and as owner, in the acquisition, development, construction, redevelopment, rehabilitation of real estate of multiple types. Construction law experience. Proven analytical, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills. Mediation, Arbitration, and Alternative Resolution Dispute Skills. Cybersecurity law, breach response, consulting for Cybersecurity. Business, Real Estate, Financing and Securities lawyer for 40 years. CWRU Law JD. Georgetown Law, LLM. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC 5 years. Calfee, Halter & Griswold 10 years. Brennan, Manna & Diamond 4 years. Private practice 20+ years

Georgetown University Law Center

LL.M. (1982) | LLM in Securities Regulation

1980 - 1982

Boston University

M.S. (1977) | Public Communications

1974 - 1977

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

J.D. (1977) | Law School first degree

1974 - 1977

Boston University

B.A. (1974) | American Political and Economic History

1970 - 1974

Honors: Cum Laude

Member

Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC

2017 - Current

Continued Joseph D. Carney's practice in own firm.

Of counsel; Partner and Member

Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC

2013 - 2017

Recruited to join BMD; first transition as Of Counsel; then Partner and Member; determined to return to own practice. Continue to work with BMD on multiple projects and continue to refer work to and get work from them.

Member

Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC

1994 - 2013

Founder of Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC in January, 1994. See www.jcarneylegal.com for further details.

Partner

Calfee Halter & Griswold

1987 - 1994

Partner, practicing securities regulation and litigation, corporate law, real estate law, agriculture law, regulatory law, financing law of various types.

Associate

Calfee Halter & Griswold

1984 - 1987

Associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold. See www.calfee.com.

Special Counsel, Office of General Counsel

Securities and Exchange Commission

1983 - 1982

Special Counsel, Enforcement and Disclosure Policy, Office of General Counsel

Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Enforcement

Securities and Exchange Commisson

1980 - 1982

Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Investment Management

Securities and Exchange Commission

1979 - 1980

Attorney, Office of Investment Company Regulation, Division of Investment Management

Securities and Exchange Commission

1977 - 1979

Many Publications

National Business Institute

Regular speaker with NBI

Award to Federal Bar Association Younger Lawyers Division while JDC was Chairman of YLD of FBA

American Bar Association

Ohio State Bar

Member

Current

Akron Bar Association

Member

2013 - Current

Cleveland Metropolitian Bar Association

Past Chairman of Securities Law Section

2012 - Current

American Bar Association

Multiple positions in Committees and Sub Comittees

1977 - Current

Federal Bar Association

Past President of Cleveland Chapter; Past National Chairman, Younger Lawyers Divisions

1977 - Current

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

Since 1982

Ohio

Since 1977

• Free Consultation
  Will provide about 15 minutes to talk about your issue. I often have answers for your questions as I have been working in my areas 40 years.
• Credit Cards Accepted
• Contingent Fees
  These are rare cases but exists. Normally there is also a very small hourly component such as $50 hr. But contingency is more where liability is quite clear but getting to the amounts and solving collectability is an issue.
• Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
  Fees are negotiable. Contingency fees are rare; but will take partial hourly and partial contingent or can be paid from transactions. In some cases will take fees via ITEX barter dollars.

• Real Estate Financing Funds
• Capital Formation Seed Capital
• FINRA, SEC and State Examinations
• FINRA, SEC and State Investigations
• Financing for Entities