Mr Peter Jonathan Halasz > Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr Peter Jonathan Halasz

+1 212.756.2238 peter.halasz@srz.com

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions, Hedge Funds, Investment Management, Private Equity, Securities & Capital Markets, Antitrust

Position

Peter Jonathan Halasz is educated in both law and business, and his practice includes mergers & acquisitions, securities, private equity, international business and investment funds. In the area of private equity M&A, he has represented clients in auctions and sales, restructurings and leveraged capitalizations, mergers, unsolicited tender offers, privatizations, international joint ventures, special-committee representations and venture capital investments. In the finance area, Peter has represented issuers and underwriters in public offerings of equity and debt, commercial paper and euro medium-term note programs, Rule 144A offerings, and the organizations and offerings of alternative investment fund products.

The United States Lawyer Rankings – 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions ranked Peter as one of the Top 10 lawyers in the nation in the area of International Trade and Finance. After graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College in 1980, Peter was admitted to a dual-degree program offered jointly by Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School and, in 1984, was awarded a J.D., cum laude, and an M.B.A.

Memberships

New York City Bar Association, Corporation Law Committee; American Bar Association Chairman, American Friends of Sheba Medical Center — Tel Hashomer, Inc.

Education

Harvard Law School, JD, cum laude; Harvard Business School, MBA.; Harvard University, AB, magna cum laude.