Mitchell Nussbaum Interviewed at The PIPEs Conference in Hollywood, Florida

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and today we are at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and we're at the Pipes Conference that the DealFlow events guys are launching. And I got Mitchell on the line, who was one of the lead sponsors. Mitch, welcome to the show. Thank you. Happy to be here. All right. So what brings you out today? Well, listen, you know, we're sponsored this conference. We have clients here. We hear hanging out with, you know, people in our industry that we've see a year in, year out. Yeah. I spoke on a panel last night. I spoke at a panel this morning. You were at the poolside panel. I was at the poolside. Yeah. I thought so. Yeah. So look, you know, they, they try to get a collection of people who were in this business from the beginning, you know, and just have a conversation about like, you know, pipes and sort of where it came from, where it's going and all that type of thing. So it's, it's fun. Okay. Fun to be here. How'd you get started in this business? Like where'd all this begin for you? Well, you know, I feel like I've been in this business for about 30 years, maybe a little bit more. I, I think it just came out of being a, you know, capital, we call them securities lawyers back then, but capital markets lawyer, and I was just interested like in the markets. I always had like probably came from my upbringing or whatever. I was very interested in, in companies going public. IPOs and the stock market. And I was a lawyer, obviously, and it was a good combination of the two. I liked the subject matter. I liked understanding. About finance and public deals and public companies. And so, you know, it just grew from there and they just grew into different structures of, you know, equity finance, such as the pipe, which is like the subject matter of this conference beyond, you know, IPOs, which is probably most of us started out doing, and then going to like other stuff where it was pipes or, you know, SPACs, which became a big part of what I do as well, and, you know, reverse mergers and different kinds of like equity finance. So. It all sort of, you know, came from there. I can't say that I've done any, much of anything else, you know, in, in that 30 something years. So I think the practice has gone into other areas, whether it be M& A or even like investigatory or the litigation, white collar stuff certainly has, even with IP companies or life sciences companies or tech companies, but. It all really stemmed from the capital markets work, you know, the whole, the whole thing. So not asking you to say any specific company or anything else like that, but what excites you in the space overall? You've been doing it, you know, over 30 years. What's exciting right now? You know, it's tough. It's a tough area. It's a tough business. And you're constantly, particularly in what I do and where people bring me into the transaction cycle, I'm like the person, you know, You know, when you're younger or when you're the more technical person, you're putting out documents, you're generating the deal documents, or you're, you're executing through the transaction where you get to like my stage, you're not doing that because there's a team doing that, you know, they could be the team that's been worked for you for a long time, but you have a team in place that does that. What you ended up being the person that everyone comes to with the problem that no one else can solve. That's what ends up being your day, right? It's kind of like, I always explain this to people like. Just imagine, like, in a hospital, right, you know, they've got the people that come in, they've got the receptionist, the nurses, the doctors are doing, like, the check ins through the different rooms or whatever, and then all of a sudden the crisis comes and it's in the, in the surgery room, right, and the person's in, like, critical condition, and, you know, the hospital staff's doing jobs, like, they're doing their job, the doctors are going around doing their, you know, walk throughs or whatever. And then all of a sudden, boom, this person goes into like, you know, on the surgery table in a critical condition. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you could be having dinner. You could be, you know, on a phone with someone else, watching a Netflix show, whatever you're doing. And within a split second, you're in that surgery room, right? Because by the way, you don't have to come in and put the gloves on. You get a phone call. Yeah. You get a phone call. And then all of a sudden that phone call turns to the surgery room within a split second. And that is essentially like what I do. So the point getting to the answer to your question, which is, it's really hard getting through that whole process and dealing with all the crises that goes on around that with multiple people. A lot of, you know, that's the difference with it, with the surgery room is you're dealing with a

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