Live Ventures Incorporated Announces Appointment of Senior Vice President and General Counsel
October 02 2017 - 8:30AM
Live Ventures Incorporated (NASDAQ:LIVE), a diversified holding
company, today announced the appointment of Michael J. Stein as its
new senior vice president and general counsel.
“Michael is an impressive and experienced leader, and we are
excited to welcome him to the Live Ventures team,” said Jon Isaac,
Live Ventures’ president and chief executive officer. “His diverse
combination of expertise in the legal and business fields is a
perfect match for our company.”
Approaching 20 years in practice, Mr. Stein joins the Live
Ventures team from DLA Piper, a global law firm, where he was a
partner in the corporate and securities group in Washington, D.C.
and Baltimore.
Mr. Stein has extensive experience advising companies on complex
capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions, as well
as corporate governance matters and securities law compliance and
reporting obligations. While at DLA Piper, he advised public
companies on corporate governance matters, including debt and
equity securities offerings, and several IPOs.
Prior to DLA Piper, Mr. Stein served as associate chief counsel
– transactional at Caesars Entertainment Corporation, and senior
vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate compliance
officer at Everi Holdings Inc.
In his role at Caesars, he was responsible for corporate
governance matters, compliance with the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, complex equity and debt transactions, and mergers and
acquisitions transactions. He also assisted on various matters for
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, one of the largest online,
mobile and social gaming companies, as well as in the formation of
Caesars Growth Partners and Caesars Acquisition Company.
During his time at Everi Holdings, a provider of electronic
gaming machines and cash access products to the gaming industry,
Mr. Stein advised senior management and the board of directors on a
variety of corporate and regulatory matters.
He will report to Mr. Isaac.
Mr. Stein earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of
Maryland School of Law and received a Masters and B.S. of
Accounting, with honors, from the University of Florida.
“Live Ventures has a unique business model focused on acquiring
diverse companies and managing them under the single Live Ventures
umbrella,” said Mr. Stein. “I’m looking forward to the challenges
and opportunities that will allow me to contribute to the continued
growth and success of the company.”
About Live Ventures Incorporated Live Ventures
Incorporated is a diversified holding company with several wholly
owned subsidiaries and a strategic focus on acquiring profitable
companies that have demonstrated a strong history of earnings
power. Live Ventures Incorporated provides, among other
businesses, marketing solutions that boost customer awareness and
merchant visibility on the Internet. The Company operates a
deal engine, which is a service that connects merchants and
consumers via an innovative platform that uses geo-location,
enabling businesses to communicate real-time and instant offers to
nearby consumers. In addition, it maintains, through its
subsidiary, ModernEveryday, an online consumer products retailer
and, through its subsidiary, Marquis Industries, a specialty,
high-performance yarns manufacturer, hard-surfaces re-seller, which
is a top-10 high-end residential carpet manufacturer in the United
States. Marquis Industries, through its A-O Division,
utilizes its state-of-the-art yarn extrusion capacity to market
monofilament textured yarn products to the artificial turf
industry. Marquis is the only manufacturer in the world that
can produce certain types of yarn prized by the industry.
Most recently, the company acquired Vintage Stock, Inc., an
award-winning entertainment company featuring movies, classic
and new video games, music, collectible comics and toys, and the
ability to special order and ship product worldwide to the
customer’s doorstep. Vintage Stock is America’s largest
entertainment superstore chain. Contact:Live Ventures
IncorporatedTim Matula, investor
relations425-836-9035tmatula@live-ventures.comhttp://www.live-ventures.com
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