Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented a client that purchased the interest of a financial services company in a joint venture, thereby acquiring 100% of the business of the joint venture, and immediately thereafter sold the entire business previously conducted by the joint venture to a third party buyer.
- Represented an importer, exporter, processor and distributor of specialty agricultural products in a joint venture with a multinational food company. The transaction consisted of about 25 different agreements, including the Contribution Agreement, LLC Agreement for the joint venture, services agreements, and other agreements.
Professional Highlights
Recognition & Accomplishments
Chambers USA, corporate/M&A and private equity law, (Pennsylvania), 2003-2020
The Best Lawyers in America, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions law, 2006-2023; "Lawyer of the Year," Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Philadelphia), 2017 and Corporate Law (Philadelphia), 2020
Speaking Engagements
Frequent lecturer in CLE programs
Board Memberships & Community Service
Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE-listed homebuilder), Director
Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, a Philadelphia-based, nonprofit health care network, Director and past Chair (four-year term as Chair, served 2005-2009); Chair of AEHN 's Compensation Committee
Past President of a child-care agency, overseeing its merger with a family-service agency
Has served on boards of both public and private corporations
Credentials
Education
Yale Law School (LL.B. 1965, cum laude)
Amherst College (B.A. 1962, magna cum laude)
Admissions
Pennsylvania