David J. Sorin

Co-Managing Partner
Two Tower Center Blvd., 11th Floor 
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
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New Jersey office:  732.839.0401
New York office: 212.618.6325
mobile: 908.216.5085
New Jersey  fax: 732.393.1901
New York fax: 212.618.6327

Dave Sorin is a co-founding and co-managing partner of the firm.  He focuses his practice primarily on privately- and publicly-owned emerging growth, technology, and life science enterprises, as well as the investors, executives, and boards of directors who support and lead them.  Dave has a long track record of successful representation of growth companies, having been repeatedly recognized by well-known periodicals for a unique combination of legal acumen and sound business judgment. He also brings to bear his broad range of knowledge and experience in counseling enterprises and investors in diverse emerging growth markets, technology industries (including software, information technology, e-commerce, and communications), and life sciences.  Many of the companies he has represented are well-known names throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

One industry-leading publication has recognized Dave as one of New Jersey’s top 100 business people, categorizing him within an “elite group” of executives who “are the voices of their industries.”  He was later identified by another industry publication as one of the region’s “top deal makers.”  Chambers USA, an international guide to lawyers and law firms, called Dave the State’s top corporate lawyer.

Prior to co-founding SORINROYERCOOPER, Dave had been Managing Partner of the New Jersey and New York law offices of Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corporation and of the Princeton office of Hale & Dorr LLP (now WilmerHale LLP), as well as a corporate practice area Vice-Chair.   He later established a non-legal consulting practice to advise emerging growth companies on a wide range of business issues, including matters relating to finance, commercial transactions, corporate partnering and licensing arrangements, and governance.  In addition, he serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University, where he teaches Entrepreneurial Law and Corporate Governance.  He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, teaching Accounting for Lawyers and Mergers & Acquisitions.

The realities of the 21^st century economy and rigorous analysis of the business and legal marketplace convinced Dave that service to emerging growth, middle market, technology, and life science enterprises is largely incompatible with the cost infrastructure, high leverage, and fee schedules generally associated with today’s law firm model.  He and his partners founded SORINROYERCOOPER to meet the new business realities head-on, reinventing law firm practice to help clients achieve their goals, sensibly.

Dave also is a Certified Public Accountant.

Professional Accomplishments:

• A national leader in the representation of issuers in Initial Public Offerings, rated #1 in New Jersey from 1993 to 2006;
• Nationally-ranked practice for the representation of “Hot Growth” America (#2 in 2000);
• Ranked as a leading New Jersey lawyer in securities and venture capital by Chambers USA;
• Listed among the Best Lawyers in America;
• Listed among the Super Lawyers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania;
• Ranked as one of the Top 100 NJ business people;
• Recognized as a leading New Jersey deal maker;
• Co-Founder, New Jersey Technology Council;
• Co-Founder and Investor, NJTC Venture Fund;
• Past recipient of the NJTC John H. Martinson Technology Supporter Award

Community:

Member of the Board of Trustees, Treasurer-elect, Rutgers Preparatory School
Clinical Associate Professor, Drexel University (Entrepreneur Law, Securities Law, Corporate Governance)
Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law (Accounting for Lawyers, Merger and Acquisitions)
New Jersey Technology Council
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Frequent speaker, panelist, and author on issues of interest to the emerging growth and middle market sectors