David Leinwand is a partner based in the New York office.
Mr. Leinwand's practice focuses on public and private merger and acquisition transactions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards. Mr. Leinwand has had several articles published in
The M&A Lawyer,
The New York Law Journal,
Insights and
IFLR regarding mergers and acquisitions and the duties of corporate directors. His most recent article, "Delaware backs Disney board's risk-taking," appeared in the October 2005 issue of
IFLR. Mr. Leinwand is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests. He has also served as an adjunct professor of corporate law at The Ohio State University. In addition, he is recommended for private equity buyouts by
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2007.
Mr. Leinwand recently represented Barclays Capital in the purchase of Lehman Brothers' U.S. and Canadian investment banking and capital markets businesses and its Manhattan headquarters and certain other real estate, the shareholders of J.&W. Seligman in the sale of that Company to Ameriprise for $440 million, Warburg Pincus in connection with its $4.5 billion acquisition of Bausch & Lomb, UBS in connection with its acquisition of the Private Client Branch Network of Piper Jaffray Companies and Targa Resources in connection with its leveraged acquisition of assets from Dynegy Inc. Mr. Leinwand has represented the private equity group, Texas Pacific Group, in a number of transactions. He recently represented both TPG and Warburg Pincus in connection with their acquisition of Neiman Marcus Group and has advised TPG in connection with in its investment in Fidelity National Information Services (a division of Fidelity National Financial), its buyout of PETCO Animal Supplies, and in its sale of Beringer Wine Estates to Foster's Brewing Group. Mr. Leinwand has also represented PeopleSoft in connection with Oracle's unsolicited tender offer for PeopleSoft; and Mikasa in its acquisition by J.G. Durand Industries.
Mr. Leinwand also regularly represents financial advisors in merger and acquisition transactions. He represented Bear Stearns as financial advisor to Aeroflex Incorporated. He recently represented Citigroup Global Markets as financial advisor in several M&A transactions, including as financial advisor to Quintana Maritime Limited in connection with the acquisition of Quintana by Excel Maritime Carriers and as financial advisor to Nokia in connection with Nokia's acquisition of Navteq Corporation. Among other transactions, he has recently represented JP Morgan as financial advisor to UnitedHealth Group in its acquisition of PacifiCare Health Systems and Citigroup Global Markets as financial advisor to Ask Jeeves in its acquisition by IAC/InterActiveCorp; Mykrolis in its merger of equals transaction with Entegris; Nokia in connection with its acquisition of Navteq Corporation; Maxtor in connection with its acquisition of Seagate and Pixelworks in its acquisition of Equator Technologies.
Mr. Leinwand joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2000. He received a J.D. degree,
magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1991 and an undergraduate degree,
summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 1992 he served as law clerk to the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
Mr. Leinwand is a member of the Bar in New York.