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John C. Kirkland of Ironridge Global Partners, LLC Receives Finance Monthly CEO Award 2014

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Aug 19, 2014 / John C. Kirkland of Ironridge Global Partners, LLC, an institutional investor in micro-cap public companies, has been announced by international corporate finance publication Finance Monthly as a winner of the Finance Monthly CEO Awards 2014.

Editor-in-chief, Mark Palmer commented: “The success of every organization is down to the depth of talent that it is able to attract and the ability of a CEO to deliver commercial success by unlocking that talent. The CEOs listed within Finance Monthly’s CEO Awards publication are proven corporate leaders who deliver results and have achieved considerable success in their respective sectors.”

About the Awards

The Finance Monthly CEO Awards celebrate the success, innovation and vision of CEOs across a number of different sectors across the globe. Good commercial leadership can be driven by various approaches; prospectors, defenders, analyzers and reactors, each can play an important and equally effective role in driving the goals of an organization. Most C-level executives are fully tuned in to this premise, and constantly aim to fulfil their potential in monitoring internal developments and market movements. Here, we serve to recognize those that keep most informed and act appropriately, driving their businesses and fulfilling stakeholder demand.

Over a period of several months Finance Monthly’s research department has undertaken extensive research to identify some of the most successful and forward-thinking CEOs in business today. The end result is a publication detailing senior individuals who have helped shape the corporate landscape in 2014.

The award recognizes an extraordinary individual who has shown the strategic foresight and leadership to deliver superior performance over the past 12 months, effectively managed all key stakeholders and prepared the organization for the next phase of growth, and in the process, helped create an enduring organization which has had a deep beneficial impact on a wider community and society at large. The individual should have demonstrated a maximum of the common leadership attributes / characteristics as well as demonstrated growth and strength in revenues and/or profits, successful turnaround, doing well in difficult economic or industry times, expansion into new markets, leading market share, successful M&A integration, new products/services and innovation.

The Finance Monthly CEO Awards 2014 Winners Edition is available at http://headley.co.uk/headturner/FMCEO2014.

About John C. Kirkland

John C. Kirkland has handled several hundred billion dollars in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities for clients such as Goldman Sachs, GE Capital, and Bank of America. As a practicing securities attorney for over 20 years, he was known for developing unique and innovative public company financing structures. John Kirkland is the author of "Practical Approaches to Securities Compliance Issues," SEC Compliance Best Practices (Thomson Reuters 2010 ed.), and various articles on securities topics.

Prior to founding Ironridge Global Partners, John Kirkland was most recently partner in charge of the securities group at Luce Forward, was previously partner in charge of the securities practice at the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Traurig, and began his legal career at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. He has been repeatedly listed in Who's Who in American Law and Southern California Super Lawyers, and quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Washington Post and New York Times. He received his BA in Biology-Psychology from Columbia University, and his JD from UCLA School of Law.