Daniel Ganitsky > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Proskauer Rose LLP‘s team benefits from firmwide strengths in fund formation, growth investment, and venture capital matters, allowing the practice to handle a wide variety of private equity-linked transactions. Key areas of focus for the team include fund mergers and de-mergers, such as abrdn’s recent sale of its US private equity and venture capital business to HighVista Strategies, sponsor-backed joint ventures and strategic partnerships in growth areas such as the sports and media sectors, and high-profile exits across a diverse range of industries. Practice heads Daniel Ganitsky, Lauren Boglivi, and Michael Ellis jointly lead the team from New York, with Ganitsky and Ellis handling a wide variety of public and private M&A, restructuring, and corporate governance matters, while Boglivi focuses on private equity-backed transactions in the sports and entertainment sectors. In Los Angeles, leveraged buyout experts Kristian Herrmann  and Christopher Ahn are highly recommended, while structured private capital expert Steven Peck is a key contact in the Boston office.

The trio of Lauren Boglivi, Michael Ellis, and Daniel Ganitsky co-head the Proskauer Rose LLP practice from New York and offer in-depth experience handling cross-border M&A, shareholder activism, and corporate governance matters. Boglivi is especially noted for handling transactions in the healthcare and media sectors, whilst Ganitsky and Ellis are experts on complex restructurings and commercial arrangements as well as private equity transactions. Joshua Apfelroth routinely handles public and private M&A as well as alternative investments, Grant Darwin advises on joint ventures and divestitures, and Lauren Kim focuses on buyouts. The firm is particularly noted for its connections with clients in the real estate, consumer goods, and life sciences sectors.

Proskauer Rose LLP‘s Latin America practice is largely located in New York and São Paulo. It has demonstrated a longstanding commitment to the region, including deals in the mining and metals, financial services, energy and natural resources, forestry & paper, life sciences, real estate, technology and telecoms sectors. The New York office has worked on a series of headline and high-value deals, including advising Jaime Gilinski on his contentious bid for a majority interest in Grupo Nutresa, Colombia’s largest food maker. The São Paulo office features a number of native Portuguese speakers and long-term residents (including both UK and New York qualified lawyers), with the team making further headway in private equity and venture capital transactions, along with fund formation engagements. In New York, veteran regional specialist Carlos Martinez leads the Latin America group and can draw on more than 35 years’ transactional experience. Also in New York, Daniel Ganitsky is global co-head of the private equity and M&A group, and a key member of the Latin America team. São Paulo’s Fábio Yamada is noted for fund formation and investments in private investment funds and buy-side secondary transactions. Since publication, Carlos Martinez has retired.