Carl is a practicing attorney with over thirty years of experience as a business attorney in New York. He has advised clients in business formation, debt and equity financing through public offerings and private placement transactions, various lending transactions including credit securitizations, corporate governance, SEC regulatory compliance, acquisitions, mergers, and sales. Carl has also represented clients in commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation, governmental agency enforcement proceedings and financial distress work out matters. He also has experience in the legal aspects of publishing, musical theater, television and other entertainment industry projects.

Carl has a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the everyday challenges faced by business leaders in such matters as sales and marketing, manufacturing, service delivery, regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction. His experience permits him to express legal issues in a business context enabling executives to make efficient, well informed and effective business decisions. Throughout his career Carl has advised entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of business formation, through proof of concept, expansion and value realization.

Carl has been admitted to the Bars of New York, Florida and the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York since 1976 and the U.S. Tax Court since 1980.

He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Model Partnership Agreements for New York Law Firms in 1989. From 1987 to 1991 Carl chaired the Committee of Law Office Economics and Management of the New York State Bar Association and from 1984 to 1987 Carl chaired the Subcommittee on Law Firm Administration.