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Practice Area Overview
Depending on the size of the market in which the lawyer practices and the size of the lawyer’s firm, he or she may be required to handle nearly all of a corporation’s legal matters. In larger firms, the Corporate lawyer with the principal client relationship will be expected to be familiar with all the issues the corporation is likely to confront, but may engage lawyers from other practice areas to assist in matters requiring special expertise, such as securities offerings, tax issues, and litigation.
Peter Allan Atkins is an internationally recognized leading attorney involved in the firm’s corporate and securities practice areas, with extensive experience in the mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance fields. He has represented acquirors (both U.S. and non-U.S.), targets and investment banks in a large number of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers (negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and joint ventures. He also counsels clients on a broad range of corpor...
David W. Bernstein is counsel in the firm's New York office. As a Mergers and Acquisitions transactional and securities lawyer, Mr. Bernstein has advised publicly held and privately owned U.S. and foreign clients in a variety of industries, including homebuilding, real estate finance, automotive, financial institutions, private equity, transportation, hotels, and gaming, with regard to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities transactions, corporate governance, and general day to ...
Truman's practice is focused in the areas of cross-border asset financing, banking, structured finance and insolvency. He has represented lessees, lenders, developers, owners, underwriters and equity investors in infrastructure transactions. He also represents developers and investment banks in transactions involving alternate energy sources, such as solar and renewable natural gas facilities. In addition, Truman has represented major banks, domestic and foreign corporations, investment banks...
Dennis J. Block is the Senior Chairman of the firm’s Global Corporate M&A Practice. He has handled numerous mergers and acquisitions transactions - both hostile and friendly - on behalf of acquirers, targets, and investment banks. The range of transactions handled by Dennis includes mergers, acquisitions, proxy contests, joint ventures, third-party tender offers, self-tender offers, and spin offs, and other forms of corporate restructurings and financings. As a corporate counselor, ...
Carl Frischling, Chair of the Financial Services Group, advises financial services firms on financial services law, financial services regulation, investment company law and the law governing mutual funds. Mr. Frischling counsels clients on all the legal facets of their business, including acquisitions and sales of investment managers and investment management companies. A pioneer in the field of bank-related mutual funds, he guides clients in developing and structuring comprehensive mutual f...
Michael B. Goldsmith is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Fashion, Apparel and Textile Practice Group. Before joining Sills Cummis & Gross, Mr. Goldsmith was a founder and the managing member of the firm of Silverberg Stonehill Goldsmith & Haber, P.C. Mr. Goldsmith has a diverse corporate practice which is international in scope. He counsels individual, corporate and institutional clients in a wide range of business-related matters ranging from general corporate and commercial wor...
Jordan Kroop represents debtors, official committees, acquirers, and significant creditors in chapter 11 matters involving publicly traded and privately held companies throughout the nation. Mr. Kroop is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and enjoys a national reputation for representing clients in such diverse industries as manufacturing, real estate development, construction, hospitality, food and beverage, gaming, healthcare, and technology. Among the many prominent chapter 11 ...
Kevin is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group and co-head of Alston & Bird’s Financial Advisors Practice. The firm is consistently ranked in the top ten by The American Lawyer and Corporate Control Alert among U.S. law firms representing financial advisors in M&A transactions. Alston & Bird has advised large and midsized financial advisors on more than $600 billion of M&A transactions. Kevin is also the co-head of Alston &a...
Carl R. Sanchez is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York and San Diego offices. Carl’s practice is primarily in the area of mergers and acquisitions, where he represents public and private companies in a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions, including stock acquisitions, divisional asset acquisitions and divestitures, tender offers, and share exchange offers, restructurings, dissolutions, going-private transactions,...
Christopher M. Wells heads Proskauer’s Hedge Fund Group and has been a leading lawyer in the hedge fund industry for more than 30 years. Chris advises on all aspects of fund formation, compliance and operations, has been described as "one of the deans of the hedge fund bar," and has led hundreds of hedge fund launches, counselling fund managers as they grew from often very modest beginnings to become some of the world’s largest and best known hedge fund managers.
Daniel Wolf’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions where he represents public and private companies, as well as private equity firms, in a variety of domestic and international transactions. His transactional experience spans the range of M&A activity including many significant cross-border and contested transactions. He also counsels public company clients on governance, activism defense, finance, securities and other general corporate matters. In 2021, Daniel was recognize...
When companies face complicated problems with many moving parts or adverse stakeholders, or require bespoke commercial arrangements, John Algie connects the invisible dots and creates a path forward through the obstacles. With hands-on experience in the business world including as the president of a professional sports team, John understands the practical realities that drive c-suite decision-making. John works with clients of all sizes in a variety of industries, and at every stage of the li...
Samantha Barbere’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate governance. Samantha represents both general corporate and healthcare clients and advises businesses on a broad range of complex transactional matters. My focus Mergers & Acquisitions I represent both buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of businesses through stock and asset transactions. I frequently partner with tax counsel to advise clients on potential tax implications of propo...
Josh Boehm is a partner in the Global Fintech & Payments practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. His practice focuses on advising innovative companies on regulatory and commercial issues involving financial technology, with a focus on blockchain-based products and services. Mr. Boehm maintains one of the nation’s leading practices in obtaining special-purpose bank and trust charters for digital asset companies. In 2015, he helped charter the first...
Bianca Costa Rodriguez focuses her practice on complex real estate transactions across various asset classes, including multi-tiered debt financings, construction loans, sales, acquisitions, and large scale development projects. Ms. Costa Rodriguez also represents equity investors in connection with the acquisition and development of commercial real estate properties, including the structuring, negotiation and financing for those transactions.
Aaron Deitsch is an associate in the Entertainment Group, where he works on transactional matters across the television, film, documentary, and podcast industries. Mr. Deitsch’s practice includes a wide variety of entertainment projects, from independent films recognized at Sundance Film Festival to reality television competition programs. He has extensive experience negotiating and drafting contracts related to each stage of productions, such as development attachment agreements, produ...
Jeff is an associate in the Business Transactions Group, where he focuses on corporate transactional work, including middle market M&A and investment management transactions. Jeff’s practice covers a broad range of matters for clients, including corporate formation, corporate governance and drafting shareholder agreements, operating agreements, confidentiality agreements and other arrangements. Prior to joining Seward & Kissel, Jeff was an associate in the Corporate & Securi...
Sarah Farhadian is an experienced commercial real estate lawyer and the principal of Farhadian Law P.C., a boutique law firm based in New York City. She has more than a decade of experience working in the real estate practice groups of globally recognized, large law firms, such as Vinson & Elkins, Paul Hastings, and Akerman. She advises clients on complex transactions involving the purchase, sale, construction, financing, development, management and operation of and investment in commerci...
Kendra Haar is an attorney in the Global Fintech & Payments practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. She advises a broad range of clients including traditional financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions, financial services companies, payment processors, trusted platform companies, payment networks, and digital asset platforms, with a focus on blockchain-based products and services. Ms. Haar's practice involves advising such clients on issues...
Natalie represents a diverse base of clients, including public and private companies, domestic and international, in a broad range of business and finance matters with a focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance, joint venture and financing transactions (including multi-jurisdictional trade and export finance transactions) and governance. She represents companies across various industries, including finance, technology, media, energy, sports, healthcare, manufa...
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