Gene Trowbridge ESQ, CCIM, founding partner of Trowbridge Law Group LLP, a law firm specializing in securities law. Trowbridge spent more than twenty years as an active real estate syndicator before entering the legal profession. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on real estate syndication law in the United States, having assisted more than 800 clients in drafting over 1,000 offerings and raising more than $8 billion in private capital. He is the author of It's a Whole New Business! now in its fifth edition and ranked number one in Securities Law and Crowdfunding on Amazon. He served as a Senior Instructor for the CCIM Institute for more than forty years.