Arif Soto
Associate
In addition to his transactional work, Arif also counsels public company clients on Securities Act compliance and ongoing Exchange Act reporting obligations, stock exchange rules, and other public company compliance matters. He regularly prepares and reviews disclosure documents for filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Experience
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented Allarity Therapeutics, Inc., as issuer, in the $30 million ATM offering
- Represented ThinkEquity, as underwriter, in the $5 million public offering of Azitra, Inc.
- Represented Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. in connection with a $1.4 million private placement of senior convertible notes
- Represented ThinkEquity, as sales agent, in the $7 million ATM offering of MAIA Biotechnology, Inc.
- Represented ThinkEquity, as underwriter, in the $7.5 million IPO of Azitra, Inc.
- Represented Avalon Acquisition Inc., a special-purpose acquisition company, in its recent business combination with The Beneficient Company Group, L.P., a technology-enabled platform providing liquidity, data, custody, and trust services to holders of alternative assets
- Represented a Nasdaq Global Select Market electronics manufacturing services company in a registered offering of $400 million in 6.000% Notes due 2028
- Represented ThinkEquity, as underwriter, in the $5.75 million public offering of MAIA Biotechnology, Inc.
- Represented Ideanomics, Inc., a global electric vehicle company that is focused on driving the adoption of electric commercial vehicles, in its public offer launch for the purchase of Energica Motor Company S.p.a.
- Represented ThinkEquity, as underwriter, in the $10 million IPO of MAIA Biotechnology, Inc.
- Represented ThinkEquity, as underwriter, in the $28.75 million IPO of Context Therapeutics Inc.
- Represented Counter Press Acquisition Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company, in its $86.25 million IPO
- Represented Avalon Acquisition Inc., a special-purpose acquisition company, in its $207 million IPO
- Represented Kingwood Capital Markets, as underwriter, in the $100 million IPO of American Acquisition Opportunity Inc., a special-purpose acquisition company
- Represented Applied UV, Inc., an industry leader in air and surface pathogen elimination technology, in its $5.0 million IPO
- Represented EVmo, Inc. (f/k/a YayYo, Inc.), a leading provider of vehicles to the rideshare industry, in its $10.5 million IPO
Insights
Insights
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- LL.M. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law 2018
- Dean’s Merit Scholarship
- Heyman Scholar, The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance
- M.A. Washington University in St. Louis 2011
- LL.B. Baku State University 2009
Bar Admissions
- New York
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Member, American Bar Association
- Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities
Languages
- Russian
- Turkish
- Azerbaijani