CrowdCheck Law
CrowdCheck Law is an affiliated law firm of CrowdCheck, Inc. CrowdCheck provides due diligence, disclosure and compliance services for online capital formation.
Practice Areas
CrowdCheck Law’s primary focus is on online capital formation activities, including offerings made pursuant to Regulation A, Regulation CF, and Rule 506 of Regulation D.
Attorneys
We are experienced corporate and securities attorneys with a deep background in all types of securities offerings. Our prior positions include service at the Securities and Exchange Commission and some of the world’s most prestigious law firms.
Experience
44 Regulation A Offering Statements filed; 33 qualified
Sara Hanks - Managing Partner
Sara is a corporate and securities lawyer with more than 30 years' experience in private practice, at the Securities and Exchange Commission and on Capitol Hill. She started her career in London with the firm that is now Norton Rose Fulbright and for many years was a partner at Clifford Chance, retiring from that firm to serve as General Counsel of the Congressional Oversight Panel overseeing TARP. She holds a Series 65 license as a registered investment adviser. Sara currently serves as co-chair of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. She is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Her law degree is from Oxford University.
Jeanne Campanelli - Partner
Jeanne has more than 25 years’ experience as a corporate and securities attorney in private and in-house practice. Jeanne commenced her legal career at Shearman & Sterling. As a Managing Director at Citigroup, she advised the equity capital markets and investment banking departments in structuring and executing public and private securities offerings and headed the equities legal team in London. Jeanne also spent 3 years working at the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate unwinding and settling derivatives claims filed by the largest financial industry counterparties. Most recently, she was the general counsel and head of corporate affairs of Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., in charge of the legal team and corporate governance. Jeanne received a BSFS and a JD from Georgetown University. She is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars.
Huiwen Leo - Partner
Huiwen is a corporate and securities attorney with experience at the World Bank, Clifford Chance US LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP. She received her B.A. and M.A. in law from Cambridge University and received her LL.M. with distinction from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a member of the New York and California bars
Jamie Ostrow - Partner
Jamie is a corporate and securities attorney who began her career in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She has worked at a boutique law firm in New York and served as a Counsel on the Congressional Oversight Panel. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received her J.D. for the New York University School of Law. She is a member of the New York, New Jersey and District of Columbia bars.
Andrew Stephenson - Partner
Andrew is an entrepreneurial attorney focused on assisting small and early stage businesses with corporate governance and securities law related matters. Prior to joining CrowdCheck Law, Andrew was involved with evaluating internal company communications and reports as part of complex civil litigation matters. Andrew has also worked for the United States Congress. While there, Andrew evaluated and drafted policy on a range of issue areas. Andrew received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and graduated, cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. During law school, Andrew served as Executive Articles Editor for the Hastings Business Law Journal, as an intern with Promontory Financial Group, and as a law clerk with a small law firm in Washington, DC. Andrew is a member of the California and District of Columbia bars.