Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Lynne Bolduc, a Partner with Oswald & Yap, practices securities and corporate law.  She represents both private and public companies, as well as investment bankers and broker/dealers.  Lynne's experience includes entity selection and formation matters for businesses just getting started, contract negotiations and drafting, mergers and acquisitions, private offerings, taking private companies public, and public company reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission.  She has structured and implemented over $1 billion in financings.

Areas of Practice

• Securities and Financing Transactions
• Business and Corporate Law

Representative Clients

• Chinese company in $120 million initial public offering
• Managing broker/dealer in largest retail private offering in the U.S.
• Performed first ever initial public offering of a Pakistani company
• Oil and gas company in $66 million initial public offering on NASDAQ
• Underwriter $25 million public offering of healthcare comp. on NASDAQ
• Counseled technology company in initial public offering
• Broker/dealer of $150 million private REIT
• Broker/dealer in $35 million private offering of real estate company
• Numerous start-up companies through various stages of financing
• Nationwide broker/dealers in all investment/banking compliance matters

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• California, 1995
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1995

Professional Associations and Memberships

• California State Bar Association, Business Section, 1995 (Member)
• National Investment Banking Association (Member)
• NASDAQ Board Recruiting (Member)
• Expert, Round Table Group
• Registered Representatives Arbitration Defense Associates, LLC (RRADA) (Referral Attorney)
• Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc. (Referral Attorney)

Honors and Awards

• Southern California Rising Star Attorney - Los Angeles Magazine, 2006
• Southern California Rising Star Attorney - Los Angeles Magazine, 2005
• Southern California Rising Star Attorney - Los Angeles Magazine, 2004
• American Jurisprudence Award, Real Property, 1993
• American Jurisprudence Award, Remedies, 1993
• American Jurisprudence Award, Wills, 1993
• American Jurisprudence Award, Civil Procedure, 1993
• American Jurisprudence Award, Criminal Law, 1992
• American Jurisprudence Award, Evidence, 1992
• American Jurisprudence Award, Torts, 1992
• American Jurisprudence Award, Legal Writing, 1991
• American Jurisprudence Award, Contracts, 1991

Classes and Seminars

• Panelist, Everything You Wanted to Know About Securities Law, But Were Afraid to Ask, National Investment Banking Association 2008 Winter Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
• Panelist, Real Estate: New Ideas for Today's Fast Changing Market, Brookstreet Securities Corporation, Annual Product Marketing Conference, 2005

Education

• Western State University College of Law, Fullerton, California, 1994
  J.D.
  Honors: Salutatorian
  Honors: Summa cum laude
  Honors: Distinguished Honor Roll Five Times
  Honors: Honor Roll Three Times
  Honors: Summa cum laude
  Honors: National Dean's List 1992-1993 and 1994
  Honors: Editor of Law Review

Published Works

• Underwriters Now Held to Higher Standards of Due Diligence, Richard Houlihan, CPA, ASA, Houlihan Smith & Company, Inc., February, 27, 1998
• A Case Without a Client, The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, The Federal Lawyer, May, 1996
• Time for a Change: Problems with the American Jury System, Women Lawyers Journal, December, 1995
• My Two Moms, Johnson v. Calvert, Western State University Law Review, Fall, 1993

Address

16148 Sand Canyon Avenue
Irvine, CA 92618-3715

Phones

888-312-8923
866-505-0437

Faxes

949-788-8980

Emails

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Websites

http://www.oswald-yap.com
http://www.oswaldyaplaw.com