Charles Kaufman practices corporate, securities, and business transactional law in Los Angeles. He has over 23 years of experience representing public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including medical devices, healthcare, software, nanotechnology, film and music production, garment manufacturing, retailing, real estate investment, and semiconductors. He has extensive experience advising public companies on securities regulation and compliance and advising both new and established companies on public and private offerings of equity securities, security tokens and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank regulation, global compliance, conflicts and special committee concerns, internal investigations, listing and delisting, crisis management, and insolvency. His practice also includes international joint venturing and development agreements in addition to supply and distribution agreements, licensing agreements, and general corporate transactions. Charles has attended over two hundred public company board and committee meetings as board counsel.

Prior to joining Lexcuity PC, Charles served as Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary for STAAR Surgical Company, a multinational medical device company headquartered in Monrovia, California. While there, he took a leading role in a complete revamping of the company’s FDA compliance systems and served as securities counsel in over $130 million in public and private capital raising.