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Grant Darwin

Work Department
Corporate; Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions
Position
Grant Darwin is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of Proskauer’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Grant advises private capital sponsors and private and public companies in connection with a variety of domestic and cross-border buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings and other strategic transactions, including growth and emerging company equity financings as counsel to investors and companies.
Asset manager clients frequently look to Grant for guidance in critical life cycle events, including GP/asset manager M&A transactions, as well as GP-stakes and GP-led secondary transactions. Beyond financial services, Grant’s experience spans an array of industries, including media, sports and entertainment, technology, retail and consumer products. Grant regularly advises on a variety of corporate governance, commercial and strategic matters.
Beyond his corporate practice, Grant engages in a range of pro bono efforts and volunteer work, including voter registration and election protection initiatives and serving as a mentor for elementary school students in NYC public schools through Read Ahead.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
Operating out of the firm’s New York office, Proskauer Rose LLP’s client roster includes private equity sponsors and financial advisors, largely from the life sciences, tech, and consumer goods sectors. Working in coordination with the firm’s London and Paris offices, the department is collectively led by Lauren Boglivi, a go-to for M&A in the media and entertainment industries, Michael Ellis, who advises on public and private M&A, joint ventures, and corporate governance, and Daniel Ganitsky, who focuses on financial advisor representations and restructurings. Kunal Dogra is well-versed in representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on various mandates, Grant Darwin handles domestic and global buyouts and strategic transactions, and Joshua Apfelroth is a trusted advisor for spin-offs, tender and exchange offers, and contests for corporate control.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)