Find Lawyers in New York, United States for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
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View Legal GuideJai Agrawal is a partner in the New York office who focuses on representing private equity sponsors on all aspects of their business and operations. He counsels sponsors on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, buy and build platforms and equity financings. Jai has represented sponsors on the formation of tens of billions of dollars of private equity funds and single-purpose investment vehicles, the formation and governance of privat...
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...
Craig L. Godshall is a partner in the corporate and securities, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions groups. He handles public and private transactions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, industrial, and utilities. Mr. Godshall structures complex domestic and international transactions on behalf of leading private equity fund sponsors, with a focus on accomplishing successful exits. He also represents the portfolio companies of his fund sponsor clients in their ad...
Mr. Schnell focuses on U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on private equity, anti-takeover preparedness and shareholder activism, financings and corporate governance. Mr. Schnell has been named as one of the leading lawyers practicing in the U.S. and has been recognized globally and in the U.S. as a leading lawyer in areas such as M&A, private equity, finance, corporate, corporate governance, health care and Latin America. Surveys that recognize Mr. Schnell i...
Jeremy Wolk’s practice encompasses various business and corporate law matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, commercial transactions, strategic initiatives and intellectual property. His clients range from IP-centric startups to Fortune 150 corporations, which he counsels on acquisitions, divestitures, development, protection, monetization and inbound and outbound licensing of content and technology assets. What do you focu...
Michael Amalfe is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Michael regularly represents private equity sponsors, private companies and public companies in a wide variety of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, minority and joint venture investments, leveraged buyouts, equity financings, carve-outs and divestitures. Michael also counsels clients with respect to general corporate and governance matters.
Maria Monte’s practice is focused on the formation, structuring and operation of private investment funds, as well as providing advice to institutional and other investors regarding potential investments in private funds. Maria advises private investment fund clients, including private equity funds, hedge funds, credit funds and venture funds, in virtually every step of strategic fundraising, ongoing operation and regulatory compliance. She also represents investors and potential invest...
Ben Steadman is a partner in the Los Angeles and New York offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He represents private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and corporate borrowers on all types of complex financing transactions. Ben has substantial experience negotiating asset-based, recurring-revenue, unitranche, first-lien, second-lien and high-yield transactions. His representative clients include BC Partners, Butterfly Equity, KKR, Siris Capital, Stone Point Capital, Stonepeak Infrastr...
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