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Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Band 2)California
Corporate/M&A: Private Equity (Band 2)Southern California
Corporate/M&A (Band 1)Profile
Professional Memberships: ABA; CSBA; LACBA.
Career: Partner since 1991. Management Committee; Co-head, Global Private Equity Group. Advises corporations, private equity investors, boards and financial advisers on diverse transactions in regulated/unregulated industries. Also advises boards on corporate governance/proxy fights. M&A: Cymer-ASML; Valeant-Medicis; Ares/Teachers-Serta-Simmons Bedding-Advent; Savers-Leonard Green/TPG; Versa Capital-Central Parking-Standard Parking; Skype/Silver Lake-Microsoft; Valeant-Cephalon; Biovail-Valeant; Central Pacific Financial-Carlyle/Anchorage Capital; Barclays-BGI; Colony Capital-First Republic; Ares/Teachers-Simmons Bedding; Hilton Hotels-Blackstone; Fender-Kaman; Chrysalis-Central Parking; Clear Channel-THL/Bain; HCPI-CNL Retirement; Mattel-Radica; Hilton Hotels Corporation-Hilton Group hotels; Novartis-Chiron. Corporate: acquisition financing, high-yield offerings, debt/equity offerings for REITS, rights offerings, convertible/exchangeable offerings.
Personal: Columbia Law (JD, 1983); Brown (BA, 1980).