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Joseph D Carney

Joseph D Carney

Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC
  • Securities Law, Business Law, Real Estate Law ...
  • District of Columbia, Ohio
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Biography

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

Practice Areas
Securities Law
Business Law
Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Real Estate Law
Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
Health Care Law
Agricultural Law
Tax Law
Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
Gov & Administrative Law
Administrative Law, Election Law, Government Contracts, Government Finance, Legislative & Government Affairs
Probate
Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
Education Law
Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
Insurance Claims
Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
Landlord Tenant
Evictions, Housing Discrimination, Landlord Rights, Rent Control, Tenants' Rights
Municipal Law
Additional Practice Areas
  • Real Estate Financing Funds
  • Capital Formation Seed Capital
  • FINRA, SEC and State Examinations
  • FINRA, SEC and State Investigations
  • Financing for Entities
  • Hedge Funds
  • Venture Capital
  • Bank Lending Financing
  • Insurance Bad Faith
Fees
  • 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.
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
District of Columbia
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Ohio
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Languages
  • French: Spoken
Professional Experience
Member
Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC
- Current
Continued Joseph D. Carney's practice in own firm.
Of counsel; Partner and Member
Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC
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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
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Founder of Joseph D. Carney & Associates, LLC in January, 1994. See www.jcarneylegal.com for further details.
Partner
Calfee Halter & Griswold
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Partner, practicing securities regulation and litigation, corporate law, real estate law, agriculture law, regulatory law, financing law of various types.
Associate
Calfee Halter & Griswold
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Associate at Calfee, Halter & Griswold. See www.calfee.com.
Special Counsel, Office of General Counsel
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Special Counsel, Enforcement and Disclosure Policy, Office of General Counsel
Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Enforcement
Securities and Exchange Commisson
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Attorney, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Investment Management
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Attorney, Office of Investment Company Regulation, Division of Investment Management
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Education
Georgetown University Law Center
LL.M. (1982) | LLM in Securities Regulation
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Boston University
M.S. (1977) | Public Communications
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Case Western Reserve University School of Law
J.D. (1977) | Law School first degree
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Boston University
B.A. (1974) | American Political and Economic History
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Honors: Cum Laude
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Awards
Award to Federal Bar Association Younger Lawyers Division while JDC was Chairman of YLD of FBA
American Bar Association
Professional Associations
Ohio State Bar
Member
Current
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Akron Bar Association
Member
- Current
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Cleveland Metropolitian Bar Association
Past Chairman of Securities Law Section
- Current
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American Bar Association
Multiple positions in Committees and Sub Comittees
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Federal Bar Association
Past President of Cleveland Chapter; Past National Chairman, Younger Lawyers Divisions
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Cleveland Bar Association
Past Chairman of Securities Law Section
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Activities: Cleveland Bar Association became Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
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Publications
Articles & Publications
Many Publications
Speaking Engagements
National Business Institute
Regular speaker with NBI
Websites & Blogs
Website
Website
Contact & Map
Avon, Ohio Office
1540 Peach Drive
Avon, OH 44011
Telephone: (440) 249-0850