Leslie N. Silverman is a partner based in the New York office.
Mr. Silverman’s practice focuses on the domestic and international capital markets, representing both issuers and underwriters. He has extensive experience, in particular, in cross-border offerings and the development of new financial products. Mr. Silverman regularly counsels companies on compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the SEC’s implementing regulations and related corporate governance matters.
Mr. Silverman is widely published and is one of the authors of
U.S. Regulation of the International Securities and Derivatives Markets (Ninth Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2008),
PLI’s Guide to the Securities Offering Reforms (Practising Law Institute, 2005) and
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Analysis and Practice (Aspen Publishers, 2003). He currently is serving as a member of, and counsel to, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. Mr. Silverman is distinguished as one of the world's best capital markets lawyers by
Chambers Global,
Chambers USA,
Chambers Latin America,
The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, The Legal Media Group Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers, The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 and
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook.
Mr. Silverman joined the firm in 1974 and became a partner in 1982. From 1985 to 1989, he was resident in the London office. Mr. Silverman received a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1973, where he was an editor of the Law Journal, and an undergraduate degree,
summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also served as law clerk to Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Silverman is a member of the Bars in New York and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.