The firm's activities are:
Corporate Finance and M&A
The firm serves as an advisor to companies contemplating a range of financial transactions, including the private placement of debt and/or equity, re-capitalization, pre-IPO financing strategies, management buy-outs, LBOs, mergers, sales, acquisitions, and strategic joint ventures.
Commercial Finance
-- The firm serves as a funding source and advisor to companies seeking new or expanded credit facilities. The firm advises companies with regard to a variety of financing vehicles including revolving lines, expansion loans, bridge loans, mezzanine financing, cash flow loans, purchase-order financing and accounts receivable financing/factoring.
Management of Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC
-- Regent Partners managed the winding down and distribution of funds to the investors of its sister-firm, Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC a secured bridge and venture lending fund.
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Stiska Mediation, Arbitration & Negotiated Solutions; Complex Legal Management
John C. Stiska, Esq. provides Arbitration, Mediation and Negotiated solutions re disputes involving complex Contracts, Financings (including complex restructurings and reorgs), Business, Corporate and Federal Securities issues. He is a member of the State Bar of California and received National Conflict Resolution Center Mediation Certification. He also does contract management of legal matters for companies with multiple proceedings and transactions, managing multiple law firms activities.
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Biography -- John C. Stiska is the Principal of Regent Partners. He has over 35 years of experience as a lawyer and corporate executive in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and general business matters. After practicing law for 15 years he became CEO of Triton Group Ltd (NYSE:TGL) a diversified holding company, the controlling stockholding position of which was acquired in a private transaction by Intermark, Inc. (ASE:IMI).
Several years later, when he was President of TGL and IMI (pursuant to a Joint Operating Agreement . . Intermark owned 48% of Triton Group) the companies were merged and a year later the combined company went into default of its sub debt indentures. Stiska then took the combined company through a Ch 11 Reorganization, emerging as Triton Group Ltd. (ASE:TGL) of which he was appointed CEO. As holding companies, IMI and TGL controlled several other public companies including Pier 1 Imports (NYSE:PIR), Fuqua Industries (NYSE:FQA), Mission West Properties (ASE:MWP) and Ridgewood Properties, Inc. (ASE:RPI). Privately held 100% owned subsidiaries of TGL included Continental Graphics, Simplicity Pattern Co., Liquor Barn, National Airmotive, Western Metal Lath and others. Post Ch 11, the 100% owned private companies were refinanced, then both the public company holdings and the refinanced 100% owned private companies were all sold over a period of four years.
Upon completion of the Intermark/Triton Group merger, reorganization and sale of holdings, Stiska was invited to join Qualcomm, Inc., (QCOM) as Senior Vice President Corporate and Managing Director of its Technology Applications Group. After two years at Qualcomm he spun out the Digital Cinema Division into a separate joint venture company.
Next he raised capital and was a Co-Founder of Commercial Bridge Capital, LLC, a private hedge fund that made secured bridge loans; a venture lending business. Over a period of 7 years CBC made 43 investments in emerging tech companies. During that period, Regent Partners was formed to deal with other firms providing investment and debt capital outside the scope of CBC's charter.
After the founding of Regent Partners, Stiska had continued to serve on a number of private and public company boards, including Jaycor Network Inc. (NASDAQ:JNIC) of which he became CEO and then Chairman until the company was sold. He then became CEO of PepperBall Technologies which he reverse-merged into a public company (OTC:PBAL) and then sold off the law enforcement division.
Prior to going into the corporate world, he practiced law as an Associate and then Partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps before Co-Founding Aylward, Kintz & Stiska as the Chair of its Corporate and Securities Dept. Aylward, Kintz & Stiska merged into and became the San Diego office of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, shortly after which time Stiska left the practice to take Intermark and Triton Group through the Chapter 11 Reorg. During his fundraising for Commercial Bridge Capital, he was Of Counsel to Latham & Watkins.
Recently he taught Securities Regulation as an Adjunct Professor of Law an University of San Diego Law School and has received National Conflict Resolution Center Mediation Certification. He is licensed to practice law as a member of the State Bar of California. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Moving Image Technologies, Inc. (NYSE-Am:MITQ; Chair of Audit Comm); AscentX Medical, Inc. Chairman of the Board and Audit Comm); Opsion Medical, Inc. (Chairman of the Board); Clinicon Corp, Inc.
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Contact -- John C. Stiska, Esq.
Regent Partners
2223 Avenida de La Playa, Ste 360
La Jolla, CA 92037
jstiska@RegentPartnersLLC.com
858-442-9660