Mr Frederic Levenson > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Miami, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Frederic Levenson

Work Department
Corporate Advisory
Position
Frederic (Fred) L. Levenson is the co-head of the Firm’s Private Equity Practice Group. He provides legal counsel to clients on a broad range of corporate counseling and sophisticated domestic and international transactions. He focuses primarily on private equity (leveraged buyouts), domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital investments and financings, private and public offerings of equity and debt securities, restructurings, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and real estate acquisitions and financings. Fred is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Private Equity practice.
Fred advises public and private companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, management groups, senior and subordinated lenders, real estate investment funds, and intermediaries in sophisticated, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, financings, divestitures and going private transactions. He also represents issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings and debt offerings.
Fred draws on his experience with clients in a variety of industries and with diverse financial requirements to offer practical and creative advice. He has represented private equity firms, financial institutions, investment banks, start-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. Fred’s industry experience includes health care, energy, manufacturing, services, retail, internet and technology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, transportation, marketing, staffing, consumer electronics, and real estate.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
Team head Frank Steinherr operates out of New York and has recently advised on acquisitions and investments in a variety of tech spaces, including software, digital assets and MedTech. Co-head Frederic Levenson advises a range of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies from Miami and underpins acute transactional skill with strong experience in the healthcare sector. The two further team leads Gregory Metz and Kristian Werling sit in Chicago and regularly assist with clients on leveraged buyouts, investments and disposals, with the former also noted for his work in the pharma and healthcare sectors. From Miami, Harris Siskind, Eric Gilbert, Michael Hacker and Alexander Clavero advise a strong roster of sponsors across M&A, joint ventures, restructurings and corporate governance, demonstrating expertise across a multitude of industries. Lindsey Reighard also comes recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense