Jonathan Roy Shechter

Jonathan Shechter is a founding partner of Foley Shechter LLP, a New York based business law firm.

Previously, Jonathan was a corporate and securities attorney with a Wall Street based law firm, as well as the Head of the Corporate Finance group of a New York firm with affiliate offices in Tel Aviv, Israel and Shanghai, China, where he was principally engaged in the practice of corporate and securities law. 

Jonathan brings extensive experience in structuring and closing corporate finance and M&A transactions, including the legal and practical business aspects surrounding raising capital, having worked with a vast array of management teams and boards of directors.

In his legal practice, Jonathan focuses on representing clients in a wide variety of general corporate and finance transactions, with a concentration on secured and unsecured private equity financing transactions as well as registration statements associated with these financings, public offerings, joint ventures, employment and shareholder agreements, as well as with the formation of private equity funds. Jonathan also represents publicly held companies with their 1934 Act reporting obligations and in the representation of broker-dealers and registered individuals in a wide array of matters, including ongoing compliance and regulatory inquiries.

Jonathan volunteers and provides pro bono assistance to Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization protecting unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system alone and that strives to ensure that no such child appears in immigration court without representation. 

Jonathan also serves as an Advisory Board Member to Beyond the Boroughs, a non-profit organization that creates deserved college scholarship opportunities for students, with a primary focus on first generation collegians.

Specialties: Private Equity and Venture Capital, M&A, General Corporate