Writing • Copyediting • Proofreading
My name is Ira Zadikow, I'm the proprietor of Business Writing for You. I created this website and service because I believe there's currently a lack of professional writing services that truly understand the nature and unique needs of business, and I believe that Business Writer for You fills that void. I am extremely familiar with financial documents because of my extensive experience in the securities industry, in equity research, and in the creation and production process of financial documents.
I have extensive writing and proofreading experience, especially within the financial markets and in business. I've been writing for the past seven years, and proofreading for the past five years. I worked for twenty-three years in the securities industry, where I gained a wide knowledge of the financial markets and publicly-traded companies. I started as a cold-caller at Lehman Brothers in 1984, and later worked at E.F. Hutton and M.H. Meyerson, among other firms. In the securities industry I worked in a variety of capacities including sales and research, and to a lesser extent compliance and operations.
My writing experience stems from being the Director of Research at Great Eastern Securities, a full service investment banking firm. I started at Great Eastern in 2004 and we created the research department in 2005. After Great Eastern, and as basically an outgrowth of that firm, I became the Director of Research at ProActive Research, a division of ProActive Capital Resources Group, and affiliated with ProActiveNewsRoom.com. At ProActive and Great Eastern I've covered both private and public companies. My writing has included equity and industry research reports, corporate profiles and fact sheets, business plans, investment summaries (IPOs, secondaries, private placements and PIPEs), website content and market commentary, covering an extremely wide range of business sectors and companies. I've also assisted many companies with their investor communications and strategic direction.
My proofreading experience includes three years at Merrill Corporation, the second largest financial printer in the world, the accounting firm Buchbinder Tunick and the financial printer Vintage Filings. At Merrill I proofread the financial documents of some of the largest publicly traded companies in the world, as well as private companies intending to go public. I've proofread an extremely wide range of financial documents, including SEC regulatory filings and audited financial statements, among many others. My proofreading has included footing financial statements, and conforming documents to either a "house" style, a specific "underwriter" style, or a specific style desired by the client. The regulatory filings I have proofread include 10-Qs, 10-Ks, S-1s, S-4s, 14As, and many others.
Most proofreaders are more concerned with the "style" and "look" of financial documents than with the actual document's content. To a great degree this is because they're not very familiar with, or even care about, a document's actual financial terminology and language. This is an egregious error. Due to my extensive financial background I'm as concerned with content as I am with style, and I can therefore serve my clients' needs in a much more comprehensive manner, from a document's initial creation through the editing and production cycles.
We are located in New York City.
The following are links to stories that I've been mentioned in.
Reuters November 14, 2006
http://sgenergycrisis.com/blog/all/update-2-interoil-says-finds-big-gas-reserves-in-papua-new-guinea/
Globe and Mail November 14, 2006
New York Times January 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/business/yourmoney/21oil.html?pagewanted=all
Link to my LinkedIn page
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=23225118&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro
Link to my Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001085671371&v=info
Clients
ModelKarma www.ModelKarma.com
GummyBear Worldwide www.GummyBearWorldwide.com
Cognitive Process Corporation www.CognitiveProcessCorp.com
Costume Network www.CostumeNetwork.com
AmerAsia/Southridge LLC www.AmerAsiaGroup.com
Clark + Huot www.ClarkHuot.com
EquityGroups www.EquityGroups.com
ProActive Capital www.ProActiveNewsroom.com
Nonprofit organizations:
Brooklyn 4 the Arts, the Brooklyn Four plus One, Inc. http://www.brooklyn4thearts.org/
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