Mr. Schuler is a corporate, securities and commercial transactions lawyer with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placement financings, and numerous types of contracts for clients within the energy, software, cryptocurrency, biotechnology and technology industries.

Bar Admissions

Admissions

• Pennsylvania Bar
• District of Columbia Bar

Education

• Pomona College, B.A., cum laude, 1985
• Cornell Law School, J.D., 1988

Significant Accomplishments

Representing private companies in multi-million dollar exit transactions and sales to Fortune 500 acquirers and private equity buyers

Representing a global digital asset/cryptocurrency exchange platform in acquisitions, governance, securities, and complex financial and commercial transactions (2019-present)

Representing private equity buyers in serial roll-up transactions

Working with early-stage technology businesses on capital formation and governance, technology licensing, and angel/VC investments

Serving as chief administrative and senior operations executive for a $100+ million Appalachian oil and gas production company, developing an intimate knowledge of oil and gas transactions, joint ventures, leasing and land matters, and energy derivatives

Representing a Nasdaq-traded engineering software company from its start-up stage to its initial public offering (1996); and continued to work with the company as outside general counsel on its secondary offering (1998), its Securities Exchange Act compliance (including all disclosure and analyst guidance issues), and five major acquisitions, as well as supervising its intellectual property and licensing work

Handling portfolio investments for Mid-Atlantic regional venture capital firm (1990 - 1997) and a California-based venture firm (2004 - 2005), focusing on technology investments

Serving as special counsel to the board of directors of a regional bank holding company with regard to securities and anti-takeover matters (2004)

Representing the City of Pittsburgh and related entities from 1993 to 2000 with regard to the matters culminating in the construction of PNC Park, including: serving as one of the lead negotiators on the lease and construction agreements; designing the auction of the Pittsburgh Pirates and working on the eventual sale of the team to the group headed by Kevin McClatchy; and authoring the urban planning justification for the location of PNC Park

Publications & Presentations

• Author, The Steel Bar: Pittsburgh Lawyers and the Making of America (Marquez Press, 2019)
• Co-author, "Top Legal Issues for European Clients Targeting a U.S. Acquisition," BNA Bloomberg Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report, January 1, 2015
• Co-author, "Corporate Reorganization in the 1990s: Guiding Directors of Troubled Corporations Through Uncertain Territory," The Business Lawyer, Vol. 47, No. 1