LBBS is one of the top 10 largest law firms in the US, serving businesses and individuals in commercial matters and litigation. We have 50+ offices in key cities across the US. I lead the firm Corporate Practice Group and co-chair our umbrella Business Services Practice Group of lawyers providing services in transactions, securities, commercial litigation, intellectual property, media, technology and entertainment law . We have extensive experience representing entrepreneurs, investors and owners of private companies from early stage to liquidity. Experience includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Corporate and Structured Finance, Real Estate Transactions, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Contracts, Litigation Strategies, Risk Management, IP,Media , Entertainment , Technology and Employment law. Client groups include Private Equity and Venture Capital firms, Entrepreneurs, Public Company divisions, Technology companies in SAAS and infrastructure and entertainment / production services, Hospitality, Project and Development finance..I also serve on our Firm's Management Committee. See http://www.lewisbrisbois.com/attorneys/platner_michael_g

BCN helps its clients use the internet to build audience and increase their sales. We develop online audience and customer acquisition strategies including everything from websites, e mail campaigns, social media and viral marketing , and cutting edge lead generation and conversion methods. Our clients get a turnkey web strategy and deployment staff from us at a fraction of the cost to build one internally.We also use and recommend leading edge tools and techniques for managing data, getting and nurturing leads, and communicating with and understanding prospects and customers. We are also leaders in logical semantic generic domain / brand development. BCN takes clients through a process of digital marketing gap identification and planning , and implementation. BCN offers great web strategies, developed and deployed for predictable monthly cost with measurable business outcomes.

South Florida's premiere Angel Investment group, New World Angels (NWA) is a group of 68 accredited, private investors, operators and entrepreneurs dedicated to providing equity capital to early-stage entrepreneurial companies with a strong presence in Florida.

HEI is a leader in service excellence and hospitality training and consulting . The company also offers a unique online e learning program, 3D service, which allows employees and students to become certified in basic guest experience management skills. We help companies set service standards and map their customer experiences to maximize revenues and loyalty emphasizing techniques and proprietary content we developed for guest and customer experience management. Our customers are in many industries , including hotels, local government services (CVB) , specialized venues (Stadiums, trade show venues), call centers, hospitals, security firms, condominiums and apartments, financial services, car dealers, and many other businesses where customer experience and top service delivery are linked. I have been the strategic advisor to this business since inception.

IPR is the Mid -Atlantic states' leading Infrastructure as a service (IAAS) provider. IPR's tier 3+ data centers, including the Wilmington NAP, provide fast and secure solutions ranging from co-location to managed services and cloud solutions. Healthcare providers, law firms , financial institutions and a variety of technology firms (re-sellers, SAAS providers) trust IPR to support their most important mission critical technology needs.

Business, M&A Securities lawyer in 90 year old general practice firm leader in northeast Ohio and South Florida. Also litigation strategy managment--corporate dispute risk managment--internet and software technology , liucnesing, Joint Ventures.While building Aldor and Layered Tech I helped build a core team at BDB to serve my corporate clients.

Loc-Aid specializes in location information aggregation platforms.The company represents cutting edge locartion information aggregation and distribution specific to the location of a cell phone device for multiple purposes including identity protection, market research and real time advertising direct to location specific prospects.I served to help the founder and the company transition to a new management team.

3tera developed one of the world's the leading cloud computing platforms. I first used this while CEO at Layered Tech and was amazed at the ability to manage servers from 1 to hundreds via a browser and across multiple data centers. I became an early stage investor as well. The GUI is visio style , making it easy to acquire and apply virtual appliances and applications together in simple or elegant configurations that then render themselves across servers. Company sold in 20!0 to Computer Associates.

Cognasys provided a proprietary expert system to manage large quantities of non standard documents, in the mortgage and auto loan tracking industry. The software is used to track such loan information and insurance compliance for most major banks in North America thru a licenced user base.Over 200,000 documents per day are processed with Cognasys software. Sold company in December 2009 to SWBC.

I am co-founder , original CEO, and past board member providing strategic support and leadership. From inception I led the company and built our first $28mm in annual revenue in our first 30 months, and grew the business from start-up to over 150 employees . LT became a world class hosting company providing on demand, virtual and cloud computing resources --eliminating the need for most companies to consider co-location as the only way to have scale-able internet infrastructure to support applications and development. I left the board in 2009 when we received an equity investment from Accell-KKR. LayeredTech was sold to Data-Pipe in 2014 and is currently a part of Rackspace.

Chairman and founder of a web application , SAAS and hosting company--see www.aldorsolutions.com * Companies section--websites and application software focused on consumers and providers in North American funeral service industry. As an inventor, I also recieved internet business method US patent "certificate for an online system".WE also incubated Layered Tech -- www.layeredtech.com is a fast growing (top 25 worldwide) leader in "on demand " internet computing resources--dedicated unmanaged servers --worldwide.We sold Aldor to Keystone Holdings, a publicly traded funeral home operator, in 2009.

Began law career in 1983 at Gunster, became Shareholder in 1990. 1994 became head of Ft. Lauderdale office growing that office from 8 to 38 lawyers in 5 years. 1995 became head of Corporate and Securities Department. Left this position after 20 years to devote substantial time to CEO positions in my developing technology companies.