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Mr Kevin Schmidt
Work Department
Kevin Schmidt is a corporate partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Co-Chair of the firm's Private Equity Group and a member of the Special Situations team.
Position
He has worked extensively on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic investments, including cross-border transactions for both private equity and corporate clients.
Career
Mr. Schmidt has spoken at a variety of seminars regarding recurring M&A issues and is a regular speaker at the International Bar Association’s Annual M&A Conference in New York. He is a contributing author of The Private Equity Primer: The Best of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report and the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report. He is also the author of various articles on M&A issues in M&A Lawyer, The Deal and The Corporate Governance Advisor. Mr. Schmidt has also been a regular contributor to programs at the Practicing Law Institute.
Education
Mr. Schmidt joined Debevoise in 1994 and became a partner in 2002. He received his J.D. with high honors from Rutgers School of Law in 1994, where he was Order of the Coif, and his B.A. summa cum laude from Jersey City State College in 1989.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
(Leading lawyers)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP clients have ‘immense trust’ in the private equity group’s capacity to handle the most diverse range of complex transactions, spanning public and private buyouts, PIPEs, multi-asset acquisitions, continuation funds, and other bespoke investments. In addition to a broad scope of expertise, the firm is able to offer clients a wealth of industry-specific experience to navigate convoluted regulatory landscapes, including such areas as healthcare, insurance, technology, and renewables. The highly respected Kevin Schmidt leads the team, who is adept at handling high-value M&A and fosters strong working relationships with market giants such as Blackstone, Brookfield and Carlyle. Healthcare and life sciences specialist Kevin Rinker , as well as Uri Herzberg who is vastly experienced across the gamut of transactional matters, led with Schmidt in CD&R’s $3.7bn acquisition of a majority stake in Roper Technologies. Paul Bird has a particularly diverse practice, renowned for his cross-border capabilities and significant corporate matters such as leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and takeover defense. Jennifer Chu continues to establish her reputation in the market for advising PE firms on M&A and joint ventures, while Christopher Anthony practice focuses on acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. All lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers 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
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)