Andy Altahawi has spent four decades building two careers that most professionals keep separate: a cross-border legal practice, conducted since 1988 in co-counsel with U.S.-admitted, European, and other international attorneys — and a capital markets history that began on Wall Street in 1994. This site is where the two halves are organized into one practice: legal matters and public-market transactions that cross borders, run by one coordinated team.
Every engagement on this site stands on one of two pillars — and the work that matters most stands on both.
An international legal practice spanning corporate structuring, commercial arbitration, and governance counsel — co-counseling with U.S.-admitted, European, and other cross-border attorneys so that every jurisdiction a matter touches has admitted counsel in its seat.
Three decades in the American capital markets — Senior Vice President of Investment Banking at Prudential Securities, founder of the SEC- and FINRA-registered broker-dealer Adamson Brothers, and today the listing advisory practice behind direct exchange listings and Regulation A+ offerings.
Foreign issuers entering the U.S. public markets — structure, disclosure coordination, and admitted co-counsel in every jurisdiction the offering touches.
Learn more →NASDAQ and NYSE listings without a traditional underwritten IPO — market-set pricing, no lock-up, no underwriting discount. Listing readiness through the first day of trading.
Learn more →Tier 2 Regulation A+ "mini-IPO" offerings up to $75 million, S-1 registrations, Regulation D placements, and Regulation S offshore tracks — fitted to the capital plan.
Learn more →Coordinated engagements with U.S.-admitted, European, and other international attorneys — one matter, several legal systems, one team, one timetable.
Learn more →Holding companies, redomiciliations, and governance alignment for groups operating across borders — built so the structure survives regulators, auditors, and exchanges.
Learn more →Commercial arbitration and dispute counsel in cross-border matters — contract disputes, shareholder matters, and enforcement questions spanning legal systems.
Learn more →Listing advisory and consultancy for NASDAQ and NYSE — with all U.S. legal advice and opinions provided in co-counsel with U.S.-admitted securities attorneys.
Co-counsel relationships with European capital markets and corporate attorneys — cross-listings, holding structures, and European issuers approaching the U.S. exchanges.
A legal practice rooted in the region since 1988 — corporate structuring, commercial arbitration, and governance counsel for family groups and companies expanding westward.
Coordination with local counsel for Asian and other international issuers seeking U.S. market access — one team, one timetable, admitted advice in every seat.
A direct exchange listing takes a company onto a national exchange by registering existing shares for public trading — the market sets the price, existing shareholders gain liquidity, and the company avoids underwriting discounts and dilution. For cross-border issuers, it is frequently the decisive path into the U.S. markets, and it follows three disciplined phases.
Corporate housekeeping, audited financials, governance build-out, and the disclosure document — a Regulation A+ Form 1-A or an S-1 registration statement — prepared and filed with the SEC.
Meeting the exchange's quantitative and governance standards: shareholder counts, public float, market value, and share price, coordinated with the SEC review process through qualification or effectiveness.
Exchange application, listing approval, and the first day of trading — with the opening price discovered by the market itself, not fixed by an underwriting syndicate the night before.
International attorney admitted to the Egyptian Bar in 1988, with a law degree from Cairo University (1986) and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Szeged. Senior Vice President of Investment Banking at Prudential Securities from 1994 to 1998; founder of the SEC- and FINRA-registered broker-dealer Adamson Brothers, which operated from 1998 to 2007 before its transition to the advisory practice he leads today.
“Anyone evaluating an advisor should be able to see the complete record, from the primary sources, in one place.”
Throughout its operation as a FINRA-registered broker-dealer, Adamson Brothers was never the subject of a customer complaint or a regulatory citation from FINRA or the NASD — a clean record across a decade of multi-office trading, market making, and corporate finance. Mr. Altahawi's own registered career from 1994 was likewise free of customer complaints.
Mr. Altahawi publishes his full four-decade career record — including a complete, factual account of the one regulatory matter in his career, the 2018–2019 SEC Longfin matter, resolved by consent without admitting or denying the allegations — together with his own statement on it.
Record & Regulatory History Read his statement on the Longfin matter →
Consultations are confidential and without obligation — by email, WhatsApp, or the contact form. Attorneys and firms seeking cross-border co-counsel are equally welcome.
