Dechert LLP

Corporate

Partner

David S. Rosenthal, co-chair of Dechert’s Global Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Practice and co-lead of the firm's Life Sciences Practice, represents publicly and privately held corporations, investment banks, and venture capital firms focused on the life sciences and medical device, technology, media, and other growth sectors. He represents clients in corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, licensings and strategic alliances.

Mr. Rosenthal regularly advises issuers and investment banks in public and private offerings of equity and debt, including IPOs, secondary offerings, confidentially marketed public offerings (CMPOs), at-the-market (ATM) financings, registered direct offerings, and PIPEs, as well as seed financings and later-stage venture capital financings. He also has particular experience counseling foreign private issuers in migrating to and listing on the U.S. stock exchanges. Mr. Rosenthal also counsels clients in general corporate matters, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance, and corporate governance, and often acts as outside general corporate and securities counsel to both emerging and publicly traded companies. These activities have included business and corporate planning and structuring as well as other contract negotiations, and contractual and other commercial dealings.

In the mergers and acquisitions area, Mr. Rosenthal has represented buyers and sellers in leveraged and unleveraged mergers, acquisitions, and private equity transactions as well as divestitures and dispositions of business and subsidiaries. The American Lawyer selected Mr. Rosenthal as Dealmaker of the Week for his skillful representation of Inhibitex in its sale to Bristol-Myers Squibb for US$2.5 billion, which represented a 163 percent premium to the closing price of the company’s stock the day before the transaction signed, and is believed to be one of the largest premiums in deal history.

Wesleyan University, B.A., cum laude Boston University School of Law, J.D., cum laude