Mr. Amatucci serves as the Managing Partner of Centarus Legal Services, PC, Centarus Business Consultants, Ltd, and CBC Due Diligence Services. He is a corporate, securities, and regulatory defense attorney who has more than 20 years of legal experience and more than fifteen years of prior management and executive level business experience at a number of large national and multinational corporations.

His legal practice at Centarus Legal Services focuses on corporate law, securities law, and regulatory defense. In his role as managing partner, he oversees a team of corporate, securities and tax lawyers to accomplish the drafting of complex securities and tax advantaged investment offerings. In addition, he oversees the operations of Centarus Business Consultants, Ltd and CentEx Due Diligence. Centarus Business Consultants is a consulting firm that is devoted to assisting small public and private companies with strategy and consulting, and CentEx Due Diligence provides due diligence services for broker dealers and registered investment advisers.

Prior to heading Centarus, Mr. Amatucci was managing partner and general counsel at a respected Midwestern real estate operating company and securities issuer. During that time, he was responsible for overseeing all of the corporate, securities, and compliance matters relative to the company. Mr. Amatucci and Centarus have, also, represented clients in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Illinois State Securities Department, and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission, subsequent to clients’ failing to comply with securities laws or receiving misdirection from prior counsel. Mr. Amatucci and Centarus attorneys have litigated cases in Federal Court and in Illinois state court ranging from breach of contract to investor fraud matters.

His passion is helping businesses of all sizes with their growth and development, and he is a true “business lawyer” since he is among a small percentage of attorneys that possesses high level and diverse business experience. Specifically, he has over a decade of prior business experience in each of the following industries: technology, banking, and real estate.

In the technology industry, he held engineering, senior engineering and executive level management positions at numerous large and respected national and international companies, to include, Unisys, NGK/NTK, Motorola, and Varta GmbH. In the banking and financial services industry, he was an executive level manager at a major national bank. In addition, he was employed as executive level manager of a branch office of a boutique securities broker dealer, where he had responsibility for managing business operations. Finally, he has spent over a decade in the real estate industry where he sold investment real estate, was a licensed real estate instructor, and he was a licensed managing real estate broker. His cumulative real estate industry experience includes over a decade of investment sales and commercial real estate deal structuring experience.

Mr. Amatucci holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and three advanced degrees, including a Master of Science, a Master of Arts, and a Juris Doctor. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, New York University-Polytechnic Institute, and University of Illinois School of Law where he was an honored recipient of an academic scholarship, and where he graduated with Dean’s List honors. He has, also, been an active member of the Illinois and New York Bar associations, and he is a former graduate level college professor of corporate and employment law.

Louis Amatucci, Esq.

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