New York Corporate and Transactional Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

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Jack Waldman is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for SwimUSA, a leading specialty apparel company focusing on the global swimwear market. At SwimUSA, Jack oversees the company’s legal affairs, including corporate governance, litigation, IP-portfolio management, labor and employment law and regulatory compliance. Jack sits on the company’s Executive Committee as well as its Board of Directors, and regularly counsels and advises the company’s executive team on strategic matters including mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and financing/capital markets. Before joining SwimUSA in 2012, Jack was a litigation associate with New York law firm Oved & Oved LLP. Jack joined Oved & Oved LLP in 2009 as a summer associate where his practice focused on commercial litigation in both state and federal court. While at Oved, Jack assisted with and second-chaired many trials and gained extensive experience representing clients in and out of court.

Corporate and Transactional Law

26 Broadway #1900, New York, NY 10004, USA

Area of Practice: Commercial Litigation Jeffrey M. Eilender is the co-managing partner of the firm and co-chair of the civil litigation group. His commercial litigation practice focuses on intra-corporate disputes and business separations, often when the future of the company or an owner’s net assets are at risk. These cases are usually hotly contested and, unfortunately, often involve adult siblings or heirs warring with each other over family businesses when the founder is no longer on the scene. Jeff has represented all of the players in a business divorce; the companies, majority owners, and dissenting or oppressed minority owners. He has also prosecuted and defended derivative actions. Many of his business divorce matters have resulted in groundbreaking court rulings that are often cited by other courts and are the subject of articles and blogs by other lawyers. Jeff also frequently writes and speaks on these issues. Moreover, the scope of Jeff’s practice extends beyond intra-corporate disputes. With nearly 30 years of litigation experience, Jeff helps clients resolve virtually any kind of business conflict. He litigates all manner of real estate, contract, intellectual property, trade secrets, employment, fraud, and other business tort cases. Jeff represents large public entities, family businesses, and high net-worth individuals and celebrities such as AXA, Verizon, Oath (formerly AOL), ALP, Inc. (the company founded by artist Peter Max that owns and commercializes all of his art), Judith Regan, Perez Hilton, the Chetrit real estate family, the Lighthouse Group, Albert Einstein Medical School, Canon, and Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. A master of procedure, Jeff is noted for devising innovative solutions that other lawyers often don’t think of, which is why clients turn to Jeff for their most significant business matters. Jeff regularly serves as lead counsel in trials and hearings in federal court, the commercial divisions of New York’s state courts, arbitral forums, and other venues around the nation, including in the Delaware Chancery Court. As Jonathan Etra, a Partner at Nelson Mullins describes him, “Jeff Eilender, is a litigation powerhouse unto himself.” Jeff has chaired the New York State Judiciary Committee for the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He also served on the Commercial Division (New York County) Advisory Committee, which advises the Bar Association’s Commercial Division on its practices. A frequent lecturer at the New York State Bar’s Commercial Litigation Academy and a panelist on commercial litigation issues, Jeff regularly edits and writes the firm’s New York Commercial Division Blog and has contributed to Bloomberg BNA’s 2017 Supplement to Litigating the Business Divorce.

Corporate and Transactional Law

1221 Avenue of the Americas, 45.S126, New York, NY 10020

Jonathan Michels is a partner at White & Case, and a member of the Firm's Capital Markets practice group. Based in New York, Jonathan's practice primarily focuses on public and private capital markets transactions, including high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, exchange offers, tender offers, consents solicitations and other liability management transactions, bridge and other acquisition ?nancing commitments and other capital markets transactions representing issuers, sponsors and investment banks in a wide variety of industries in the United States, Latin America and elsewhere abroad. Jonathan has a proven ability to manage complex, multijurisdictional transactions and works seamlessly alongside teams of the Firm's lawyers from around the world. Jonathan's experience and extensive knowledge of debt capital markets also allow him to quickly adapt to evolving and challenging market dynamics, and clients often look to Jonathan to find innovative and creative solutions to client and investor concerns. Jonathan has continued to be at the forefront of the high yield, special situations and liability management market, particularly in the face of the global economic challenges that sponsors, issuers, investment banks and hedge funds navigate in a volatile market landscape, including as a result of various economic and industry-specific factors. Clients also seek Jonathan's advice to tap into his deep knowledge of acquisition financing structures, navigating multiple stages of a complex acquisition transaction and required expertise across the entire life cycle of a high-yield committed acquisition financing structure, from financing commitment, to funding of a bridge loan, to successful execution of a take-out bond financing. Jonathan is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500 where clients say "Jonathan is exceptional, he produces outstanding work and is very client- oriented." "He is very constructive, knowledgeable, and demonstrates a commanding knowledge of the law." "Jonathan has a superb understanding of the legal issues, while remaining acutely aware of the commercial implications." "Jonathan Michels is the best in the business. He is an expert who lives the transaction with you. He is a problem solver and is very practical. He is a pleasure to work with every step of the way." "It is amazing the way partners like Jonathan Michels help to think like our team from a business sense, but guide us through the law to achieve our clients' goals." "Jonathan Michels has been exceptionally great in being available at all times to handle matters or answer questions with a smile". "I wouldn't hesitate to take any matter to Jonathan. He is all about getting the best deal, works tirelessly and can crank things out." "An exceptional attorney." "He's a great partner, a great team member to work with and very knowledgeable." "Jonathan Michels is an excellent partner. He has amazing connectivity and insight not only in legal but industry matters. He's consistently available but most importantly, brings a business sense that allows him to be a true partner." "He is the full package: he is a one-stop shop for capital markets and he is good at solving problems."

Corporate and Transactional Law

1460 Broadway suite 1460, New York, NY 10036, USA

Corporate and Transactional Law

505 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

Marshall Sonenshine is Chairman and Managing Partner of New York investment banking firm Sonenshine Partners. Mr. Sonenshine was previously Partner in Wolfensohn & Company, the M&A boutique headed by former Salomon Brothers’ head of banking Jim Wolfensohn and US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Mr. Sonenshine was part of the leadership team that merged Wolfensohn first into Bankers Trust, where he headed Media M & A and Aerospace/Transportation M & A, and later into Deutsche Bank, where Mr. Sonenshine was asked to serve as Global Co-Head of M & A. Mr. Sonenshine began his finance career at Salomon Brothers in New York. Since 2016, Mr Sonenshine has served on the adjunct faculty at Harvard Law School teaching Mergers and Advanced Corporate Transactions. From 2009-15 Mr Sonenshine was Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University Business School teaching Private Equity and Turnaround Management. Mr Sonenshine has been a global finance commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg and has published widely in the New York Times, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Merrill Datasite, Harvard Law and Business Schools and Columbia Business School. Mr. Sonenshine holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He studied at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and, while at law school, he served as a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Harvard University’s Government Department, and an Instructor in Legal Methods and in the International Tax Program at the Law School. Following Harvard he became law clerk to Hon. Lawrence Pierce of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, where he worked on major corporate, securities and M&A federal cases. Mr. Sonenshine counsels numerous leading companies globally including in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, China, Japan and Australia, and has advised on numerous major transactions worldwide, including the Disney/ABC merger, the merger of International Lease Finance Corporation into America International Group, the global restructuring of GPA Group plc with General Electric, the restructuring of Daimler Benz’s AEG industrial group, the Sony/Columbia Pictures and Guber Peters Entertainment merger, the sale of GE affiliated Genesis Lease to AerCap, the sale of Structural Dynamics to EDS and Simulia to Dassault Systemes, the proxy battle and hostile defense of The United States Shoe Corporation, the mergers of Chancellor Media, Capstar and Clear Channel, the sale of Simulia to Dassault Systèmes, the recapitalization of KKR-and-Wachovia backed New South Communications (later Nuvox), the representation of Alcoa in several global divestitures, the restructurings and sales in Chapter 11 of Riverstone Networks to Alcatel, of Hear USA to Siemens, and of the Philadelphia Inquirer and News to an Investor Group. In Asia Mr Sonenshine and Sonenshine Partners has represented numerous companies including two of China’s leading publicly traded manufacturers (Nine Dragons and Sirio Pharma) in their first North American acquisitions. Earlier, Mr Sonenshine was Senior Investment Banker in Fuji Wolfensohn, representing major Japanese companies in cross border Mergers. Mr Sonenshine is Trustee of Hunter College where he has served on the Executive Committee as Chairman of Endowment. He has also served as Chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund and as Co-Chair of the Center for Law Brain and Behavior at Harvard and Mass General. He has also served as Trustee, Executive Committee Member and Chairman of Development for Jazz at Lincoln Center and the International Center of Photography, as Member of the Brown University Annual Fund Executive Committee, and as Vice Chairman of ArtsConnection. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and has served as member of the Corporate Boards of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as Member of the Democratic National Committee New York Tri State Finance Committee. Mr Sonenshine has also served as Chairman of RosettaBooks and as Executive Producer to three leading political and legal documentary films on HBO, including Loving Story, for which he holds Emmy and Peabody awards.