We would like to announce the addition of a new attorney to our team, Ms. Hallie Bezner.  Hallie has joined Hafelein White as Of Counsel and specializes in the area of criminal representation, allowing the firm to provide a dynamic response to the criminal law needs of its clients.  We are extremely excited to have her as Read more…

Hafelein White would like to announce that it is now offering estate planning services including but not limited to: – Drafting of wills – Drafting of living trust instruments – Drafting powers of attorney – Drafting health care powers of attorney – Drafting advance health care directives/living wills – Drafting other documents as necessary to ensure that Read more…

A new article concerning the basics of non-registrant proxy solicitation is now available.  See the firm publications section of the website for the full article.

Hafelein White has posted an updated version of the executive summary of the white paper on Section 13(f) reporting.  The full version of that paper and the executive summary can be found in our firm publications section of this website.

Proxy access has been the darling of the activist shareholder movement for a number of years. Allowing shareholders to include their director nominees with a company’s own proxy materials would greatly reduce the costs associated with effectively running those nominees. Still, companies that are bound by SEC’s proxy rules have been allowed to exclude shareholder Read more…

Cory White and Matthew Hafelein have been elected to the Board of Directors of the Harlem Theatre Company, a theatre company founded in New York and now operating in Chicago.   The Company serves to teach and educate the community through the performing arts.  Cory and Matthew will bring their legal knowledge and expertise to Read more…

Cory White has accepted an appointed as a Fellow to the Illinois State Bar Association’s Diversity Leadership Institute.  He will working closely with the Diversity Leadership Council to better address and understand the diversity issues and concerns among Illinois lawyers.

Earlier this year Facebook closed a $1.5 billion cash raise, $1 billion of which came through the usage of a special purpose Goldman Sachs investment fund. This allowed Facebook to pool the investment dollars of numerous investors while only recording one holder of record on its books, namely the Goldman investment fund. Some have suggested Read more…

In January 2011 Facebook completed a private cash raise of $1.5 billion. The deal was made possible through the creation of a private investment fund owned by Goldman Sachs.  The transaction has left open questions of securities liability for private funds and their portfolio companies.  For a detailed discussion see “The Regulation D Two Step” Read more…

Cory White, founding member of Hafelein | White, LLC, has been appointed as the Vice-Chair of the Business Law Committee of the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.   He has also received appointments as a Member of the Standing Committee on Racial & Ethnic Minorities and the Law and  as a Member of the Corporation, Read more…