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Mr David Leinwand

Position
David Leinwand is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Leinwand’s practice focuses on merger and acquisition transactions. David has represented a broad array of buyers and sellers, as well as their financial advisors, in a wide variety of public and private deals. In particular, he has significant experience advising private equity firms in their acquisitions and dispositions. He also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards.
Career
David joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 2000. J.D., Harvard Law School (1991); B.S., University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business (1988).
Memberships
Mr. Leinwand is a member of the Bar in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
(Leading partners)Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s private equity practice is active across middle-market and bulge-bracket transactions, especially in the tech, aerospace, and healthcare sectors, and is noted for its ability to facilitate complexly structured club deals, cash-and-stock acquisitions, and cross-border transactions. The team regularly acts as counsel to Warburg Pincus and its portfolio companies in connection with impactful platform and add-on acquisitions as well as high-value exits, and it also advises a series of sovereign wealth funds and other asset managers on their cross-border investment activities. M&A and corporate governance expert David Leinwand leads the New York-based team, which is also home to ‘intelligent, efficient, thoughtful, and responsive‘ cross-border M&A specialist John Kupiec as well as Paul Shim, who maintains close relationships with an array of sovereign wealth clients. Further key contacts include Matthew Salerno, who leads on a large volume of high-value PE-backed investments, and Paul Imperatore, who handles both private equity and venture capital transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Finance > Project finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism