Co-Managing Partner
Anthony Paesano
Anthony Paesano is a founding partner of Paesano Akkashian, PC, where he serves as a trusted legal and strategic advisor to businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, real estate developers, and closely held and publicly traded companies. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, bank finance, commercial lending, real estate acquisitions and financing, corporate structuring and governance, securities transactions and arbitration, regulatory compliance, and general business transactions.
Practice Areas
Mergers and Acquisitions
Real Estate Finance
Securities Transactions and Arbitrations
Corporate Structuring and Compliance
International Law
Contact
- apaesano@palawyers.com
- (248) 792-6886
- (248) 792-6885
Anthony Paesano is a founding partner of Paesano Akkashian, PC, where he serves as a trusted legal and strategic advisor to businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, real estate developers, and closely held and publicly traded companies. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, bank finance, commercial lending, real estate acquisitions and financing, corporate structuring and governance, securities transactions and arbitration, regulatory compliance, and general business transactions.
Anthony regularly advises clients in connection with complex business acquisitions and dispositions, entity structuring, ownership transitions, shareholder and member arrangements, joint ventures, private placements, debt and equity financing, and commercial real estate transactions. His finance practice includes representing borrowers, lenders, investors, and business principals in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset-based lending, acquisition financing, construction and real estate financing, loan workouts, debt restructuring, and related collateral, guaranty, and intercreditor arrangements. He also counsels clients on Affiliated Business Arrangements under RESPA, including structuring, ownership, compensation, and compliance considerations.
Anthony represents publicly reporting and trading companies on the OTC marketplace and national securities exchanges, as well as closely held corporations pursuing initial public offerings, tender offerings, reverse mergers, and other capital markets transactions. He also represents issuers, broker-dealers, investors, and business owners in raising capital through registered and exempt securities offerings.
In addition to his extensive transactional practice, Anthony is an Arbitrator before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) and arbitrates matters before FINRA. He represents companies and individuals in securities-related disputes, regulatory matters, and proceedings involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, including formal and informal investigations. Anthony also serves as an experienced liaison for clients with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Michigan Attorney General’s Office in securities-related fraud matters, and advises clients through bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring, and distressed-business situations.
Anthony’s practice is grounded in providing practical, business-minded legal counsel that helps clients evaluate risk, structure transactions, resolve disputes, obtain financing, pursue strategic growth opportunities, and protect enterprise value.
University of Detroit-Mercy School of Law, J.D.
Purdue University, B.A.
State Bar of Michigan
United States District Court for the Eastern and Western District of Michigan
United States Tax Court
Represents Boards of Directors for a variety of publicly reporting and trading companies in mergers, acquisitions, investigations, arbitrations and general corporate compliance;
Represents private and public corporations headquartered in Sri Lanka, Sweden, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Belgium, England and Australia in ongoing matters in the United States and overseas;
Represents real estate developers, managers and acquisition entities in transactions involving equity, debt or convertible debt in coordination with brokers, HUD and private lenders;
Represents Florida company in general corporate matters and $19,300,000 Regulation D offering of investor class of securities in real estate development and management company, and $4,000,000 acquisition of property for development;
Represents Michigan company in general corporate matters and $25,000,000 Regulation D offering of investor class of securities in real estate development company, and $16,000,000 acquisition of property for development;
Represents Michigan company in general corporate matters and $4,800,000 Regulation D offering of investor class of securities in real estate development company;
Represented Michigan company in a $10,000,000 Regulation D Offering, $17,000,000 commercial mortgage-backed securities loan and $24,600,000 acquisition of a multi-family property;
Represented Michigan company in a $9,250,000 refinancing through a commercial-backed securities loan;
Represented Michigan company in a $6,500,000 Regulation D Offering and $5,812,500 stock acquisition in a high-rise development in Detroit;
Represented Florida company in a $5,00,000 Regulation D Offering for investment into an opportunity zone fund;
Represented Wyoming corporation in acquisition of shares of corporation in the country of Lesotho;
Represented Michigan software development company in $750,000 Regulation D offering;
Represented English corporation in joint venture with Indian automotive supplier;
Represented Maryland real estate holding corporation in Form S-11 registration statement and direct public offering;
Represents California corporation in general public reporting requirements, public resale registration statement under Form S-1 and in $1,500,000 Regulation D offering of common stock;
Represented investor class in Regulation D offering of $4,400,000 for development in Detroit, Michigan;
Represents approximately 170 victims of an international Ponzi scheme;
Represents a Nevada public company in merger with related Delaware public company, and related registration statement under Form S-4;
Obtained a $1,500,000 judgment against defendants in a fraud case revolving around a deceptive securities program;
Represented Michigan corporation with foreign shareholder in merger into related party in Michigan as part of corporate restructuring program;
Represented Michigan company in $4,500,000 equity raise and $8,400,000 construction loan;
Represented Tier 1 automobile supplier in $10,000,000 bank financing restructuring;
Represents Michigan private equity lender in Regulation D offering of $20,000,000 of Series A preferred units for national real estate development and investment program, and;
Represented multi-family Borrower in $7,000,000 commercial mortgage-backed securities loan