[WATCH]: Financing During Times of Crisis by Strategic Partners/Investors
Howard Sterling, who focuses on cross-border international licensing especially in Health Tech, High Tech and Clean Tech, shows the win-win-win of small innovative companies raising funds by going to complementary, larger industrial partners, many times from another country, since the leading company needs innovative products and has cash.Education and Honors: BS at Columbia University in Economics, 1962, with Honors, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa; LLB from Harvard Law School, 1965, Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law Review Editor: Law Review Note on Broker Dealer Bankruptcies. Senior Honors Seminar Thesis on Broker Dealers Going Public; Published in the UCLA Law Journal. Legal and professional background includes the following: Law Firm: Founder and Senior Partner, Rifkind & Sterling, Beverly Hills, California: 1965 1983, premier West Coast Boutique law firm specializing in Securities Law, IPOs especially for technology and biotechnology companies; Did over 100 IPOs. Investment Banking, 1983-2008, •Rooney Pace, started and headed Investment Banking 1983-1987 •HJ Meyers, investment banking, 1988-1991; also reorganized and sold my deceased father-in-laws time share business, Preferred Equities. •Oscar Gruss & Son, started and headed Investment Banking, 1991 1994 In Israel focused on Israeli Technology and Healthcare, did 11 Israeli IPOs and was co-CEO of Nitzanim Venture Fund, one of the first USA-style venture funds in Israel. •Sands Brothers/Laidlaw, 1995 2005 COO of Venture …