Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Richard S. Lincer is a partner based in the New York office. Mr. Lincer’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including international project financings and debt restructurings, corporate and asset acquisitions, joint ventures and high yield and leveraged finance transactions, as well as public and private offerings of corporate securities and investment funds.

Mr. Lincer joined the firm in 1979 and became a partner in 1986. Mr. Lincer was resident in the firm’s Hong Kong office in 1998 and 1999. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lincer served as law clerk for the Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Mr. Lincer is a member of the Bar in New York and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Lincer is also a member of the Board of Trustees of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Mr. Lincer received a J.D. degree in 1978 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Notes and Comments Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He received an undergraduate degree from Yale College in 1975.