Peter H. Lieberman

Peter H. Lieberman

Chicago, IL recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2007
Greenberg Traurig

629 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Corporate Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Biography

Peter H. Lieberman is Co-Chair of the Chicago Corporate & Securities Practice. He has more than 20 years of broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, public company, and hedge fund matters, private equity, start-up and venture capital, and related securities regulation issues. Peter brings to his work a diverse transactional background, including a decade-long involvement in hedge fund transactions and securities trading and hedging issues. He has been involved in scores of PIPE and registered transactions involving common stock, convertible preferred stock, warrants and convertible debt. Peter has dealt with a myriad of structuring and SEC compliance issues related thereto. His work has also included involvement in special committee matters, management team matters, start-ups, restructurings, strategic and troubled company acquisition and disposition transactions, private equity and venture fund investments, acquisition and sale transactions, as well as fund formation, lending and financial advisory matters.

Peter trained at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he was involved in both hostile and negotiated transactions (including proxy contests and the implementation of takeover defenses).

Greenberg Traurig

629 Best Lawyers awards

Greenberg Traurig logo

Overview

  • Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1992

  • Illinois, Illinois State Bar Association
  • New York, New York State Bar Association
  • Illinois, Illinois State Bar Association
  • New York, New York State Bar Association
  • Harvard University, J.D., graduated 1992

Client Testimonials

Peter Lieberman is the perfect combination of intellectual acumen and practical ability. He knows how to get the deal done. He is as impressive as they get.

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Corporate Compliance Law
  • Corporate Governance Law
  • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
Awards:
  • "Forty Under Forty," Crain's Chicago Business, 2000
  • Winning Deal Team - Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (Over $100mm), 2011 Turnaround Awards, The M&A Advisor, 2011
  • Winning Team, Global M&A Network’s 2012 Turnaround Atlas Award for “Private Equity Turnaround of the Year” for the Chapter 11 reorganization and acquisition of American Laser Skincare LLC
  • Chambers USA Guide, 2010-2013
  • Corporate Board Member magazine and FTI Consulting Inc., one of "America’s Best Corporate Law Firms," 13th Annual Legal Industry Study, 2013
  • Leading Lawyers Network, 2005-2014
  • Super Lawyers magazine, Illinois Super Lawyers, 2006-2010, 2014

Case History

Cases
  • Areas of Concentration
  • Hedge fund transactions and securities trading and hedging compliance
  • Securities matters and structuring
  • Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts, including troubled company matters
  • Board and special committee advice
  • Corporate finance, including PIPE transactions
  • Fund, start-up and venture capital transactions
  • Management team representations
  • Fairness opinions
  • Significant Representations
  • Represented Brentwood Associates in its acquisition of iconic American shoemaker Allen Edmonds Corporation.
  • Represented Jarden Corporation in its approximately $1.8 billion acquisition of Yankee Candle Company, the leading scented-candle maker which owns and operates more than 560 retail stores in the U.S. and Canada and sells its products in over 35,000 retail locations.

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