Areas of Practice

• Private equity fund and portfolio company transactions
• Mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged buy-outs of publicly and privately held concerns
• Equity and debt financings, including public offerings and Rule 144A
• Banking and secured transactions
• Securities law reporting and compliance
• Structuring of transactions and commercial documentation involving software and other intellectual property and technology
• Corporate and troubled company restructuring transactions

Represent

• Clients acquiring and financing media properties, including radio and television stations, cable television systems, newspapers, magazines, educational publishing, and business-to-business information and database providers
• Clients engaged in specialty chemicals, health and nutrition products, minerals and manufacturing operations
• Clients developing and marketing software, database and similar technologies

Bar Admissions

• New York

Legal Career

• Participated in the formation of Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in 1982 after being associated with the New York City firm of Kramer, Levin

Author/Speaker

• Panel Member, Annual Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Seminar, sponsored by The American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Legal Education

Professional Activities & Associations

• Past Member, Corporation Law and Computer Law Committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Member, Business Law and Intellectual Property Law Sections, American Bar Association

Education

• J. D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School (1976), Editor of the Harvard Law Review (1975-1976)
• B. A., M. S., both with honors, in Industrial and Management Engineering, Columbia University (1972, 1973)