Dean M. Colucci

Dean Colucci is a capital markets partner at Duane Morris LLP whose practice sits at the intersection of securities law and market structure. He advises issuers, underwriters, and broker-dealers on efficient capital raising structures, cross-border transactions, and regulatory compliance across the full lifecycle of a public company. Dean is widely recognized as one of the leading practitioners in alternative and continuous equity capital raising—a market he helped shape from the ground up—and is a go-to counsel for practitioners and issuers navigating the nuances of Regulation M, FINRA rules, and SEC guidance in real time.

His perspective is distinctive: before returning to private practice, Dean served as President and Head of Investment Banking at MLV & Co., growing the firm's revenue more than fourfold during his tenure. That operating experience gives him an unusually practical lens—he understands how capital markets actually work, not just how they are regulated.

Over a career spanning more than three decades, Dean has counseled clients across hundreds of capital markets transactions aggregating many tens of billions of dollars in value across life sciences, energy, REITs, technology, financial services, and transportation. He has been an architect of multiple alternative equity and capital raising products—including at-the-market offerings, committed equity facilities, and a range of continuous and structured offering programs—and has applied these structures to dual-listed issuers in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Practice Focus

• Alternative capital raising products — at-the-market offerings, committed equity facilities, and other continuous offering programs
• Development of new capital raising products and structures for public companies and their intermediaries
• Cross-border transactions — MJDS issuers, foreign private issuers, and dual-listed companies across Canada, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Israel
• M&A — public and private company transactions, with depth in natural resources, energy, and healthcare
• Broker-dealer regulation — Regulation M, FINRA research rules, insider trading policies, and distribution compliance
• '34 Act reporting and company counseling
• AI-integrated legal practice — agentic workflows for SEC filing surveillance and regulatory intelligence

Recent Work & Recognition

In 2025, Dean served as lead counsel to Monogram Technologies in its acquisition by Zimmer Biomet. Monogram was a pioneer in semi-autonomous and autonomous robotic-assisted knee replacement surgery. M&A Magazine recognized the deal with an honorable mention in the healthcare category, reflecting both the transaction's complexity and its significance to the sector.

In April 2026, Dean co-authored the Duane Morris Alert addressing new SEC Corporate Finance guidance (Question 116.26) that fundamentally changed practice in continuous equity offerings—allowing issuers to 'lock in' prospectus supplement amounts registered under General Instruction I.B.1, eliminating the longstanding obligation to recalculate float at annual report filings. He was also quoted in Bloomberg Law on the implications of equity market volatility for alternative capital raising program activity.

A current focus of Dean's practice is the integration of AI tools into securities law—developing agentic workflows for monitoring SEC filings and competitive intelligence and advocating within the profession for rigorous, ethics-informed AI adoption consistent with ABA Formal Opinion 512.

Civic & Pro Bono

Dean has served as a Trustee of Beat the Streets Wrestling since 2010 and as its General Counsel from 2005 to 2010. Beat the Streets is a New York City nonprofit that uses competitive wrestling as a platform for academic achievement, character development, and life-skills mentorship for at-risk youth across the five boroughs. Dean was himself a four-year varsity wrestler at Cornell University and a New York State private school champion at Xaverian High School—the sport remains a meaningful through-line in his life and his commitment to the organization.