Find Lawyers in Los Angeles, California for Corporate Law
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.
Corporate Law & Commercial Litigation Legal Guide 2023
View Legal GuideAndrew Apfelberg, a Partner at Greenberg Glusker LLP, is a corporate and finance attorney for middle-market companies throughout the United States. Andrew often acts as outside general counsel to his clients, providing advice on a business’ significant transactions whether it’s a merger or acquisition, private equity or other financing, joint venture or licensing deal. He has a considerable depth of experience in the branded consumer products and manufacturing & distribution i...
Mr. Barton practices business law, representing both public and private clients in a variety of transactions and specializing in middle-market company M&A, reorganizations, and work-outs. Mr. Barton has extensive experience in both domestic and international transactions, including Australia, Canada, and Mexico. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Barton was vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Sizzler and remained in charge of the company’s legal affairs throughout its chapter 11 r...
Gordon Bava is a senior partner of the firm after serving for a decade as its Chief Executive and Managing Partner. Gordon’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, special committee representation, private and underwritten securities offerings and general corporate representation of clients in a variety of industries. Gordon has conducted these services for public entertainment, utility and healthcare companies, local, regional and multinational financial institutions and holding...
Kenneth R. Benbassat concentrates his practice in general corporate, securities, transactional, commercial, and international business matters and has been involved in the structuring and documentation of numerous mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing transactions.
Jonathan Benloulou is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s Dallas and Los Angeles offices. Jon regularly advises private equity firms and private and public companies on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, minority investments, restructurings and other strategic transactions. In addition, Jon has extensive experience in asset manager M&A transactions and GP-led secondary transactions. He was recognized in the annual list of the “Top...
Pippa Bond is a capital markets partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has extensive experience in corporate finance and securities, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and restructurings. Pippa acts as counsel to issuers, sponsors and underwriters in registered public offerings, block trades and private placements of debt and equity securities, as well as tender offers and consent solicitations. Pippa also counsels institutional and corporate clients with re...
The leader of the Corporate Group in Skadden’s Los Angeles office, Jeffrey H. Cohen is recognized consistently as one of the leading private equity and M&A lawyers in Southern California. His broad transactional practice focuses on private equity and strategic mergers and acquisitions around the world. Mr. Cohen has represented both buyers and sellers in numerous large and middle-market mergers and acquisitions. He often represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies ...
Eva is a “savvy dealmaker” who is consistently named a top California lawyer by national and regional publications. With over 20 years of experience, Eva works with some of the most active private equity funds in the country and provides “astute commercial advice” alongside her strategic M&A counseling when negotiating on behalf of U.S. and global public and private companies, boards of directors, and private equity funds involving their most significant transactio...
David C. Eisman represents companies, investment banks and private equity funds in connection with a variety of corporate, securities and M&A transactions, including private and registered securities offerings, public and private acquisitions, strategic investments and joint ventures. He also represents private equity, hedge fund and other private fund sponsors in structuring and forming their funds, registering as investment advisers and dealing with regulatory issues. Transactions in wh...
Ronald L. Fein is the sole practitioner in RL Fein, Inc. For nearly two decades, Mr. Fein was a senior shareholder of Stutman, Treister & Glatt. He was admitted to the California bar in 1970 Mr. Fein began his legal career as a corporate lawyer with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher until he was appointed as the youngest Chief Deputy Commissioner of the California Department of Corporations by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. in 1975. Thereafter, he became the firm-wide Chairman of the Mergers and ...
Mary J. Garnett is a partner in Barnes & Thornburg's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's Real Estate Department. Mary's practice focuses on real estate and corporate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing of office, industrial and retail properties, financings, and joint venture formation and structuring. Mary frequently provides general counsel services to her clients, such as litigation monitoring and management, risk assessment and negotiation of commerci...
Recognized as a market-leading corporate strategist, Moshe Kupietzky provides business entities, entrepreneurs, and innovative companies with legal solutions to accelerate growth. Now focusing on the healthcare industry, Moshe applies his considerable knowledge in the areas of corporate and finance law to advise the lawyers in Nelson Hardiman’s Transactions Group and their clients. He harnesses experience across a broad spectrum of industries to structure complex mergers and acquisition...
Rick Madden focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, out-of-court restructurings and securities offerings. He also counsels clients with respect to corporate governance and SEC-reporting requirements and represents private equity firms and companies in connection with acquisitions and other transactions. Since 2014, Rick has been recognized in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Corporate/Private Equity. Clients describe him as “very talented and...
Brian J. McCarthy is the head of Skadden’s Los Angeles office. His practice concentrates on corporate and securities matters, with particular emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance issues and restructurings. Mr. McCarthy has acted as counsel to numerous companies and investment banking firms in mergers, acquisitions and tender offers, both friendly and hostile, including the representation of Activision, Inc. in its business combination with Vivendi Games; The Walt Disn...
Mark J. Mihanovic, head of the Firm’s California Transactions group, focuses his practice primarily in the areas of corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He represents companies in a broad range of industries, with a particular emphasis on technology, life science and health care companies. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/mihanovic-mark-j/
Emerging growth and middle-market companies seek Katy’s counsel and guidance for their corporate matters including their mergers and acquisitions, financings, and joint ventures. She has worked with businesses in nearly every industry but she has a passion and deep industry expertise in branded consumer products, technology, new media, and entertainment industries. Katy has established herself as a leader in and outside of the firm. After becoming a partner of the firm early in her care...
Bunnie represents both entrepreneurs and established businesses – including family offices, institutional investors, real estate investment companies and cannabis retailers – in entity formation, governance, and complex corporate and investment transactions. Bunnie counsels early stage growth companies on equity and debt financings including drafting convertible notes and simple agreements for future equity, and private companies on recapitalizations, strategic investments, merger...
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