Mr Stuart Freedman > Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Mr Stuart Freedman

+1 212.756.2407 stuart.freedman@srz.com

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions, Distressed Investing, Energy, Financial Institutions, Private Equity, Securities & Capital Markets

Position

Stuart D. Freedman serves as co-chair of the firm’s M&A and Securities Group. Stuart focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and securities, representing various well-known money managers in connection with a variety of acquisitions and control and non-control investments, including of companies engaged in financial restructurings. His practice includes a broad range of global equity investments and significant experience in cross-border transactions across a number of targeted industries, including real estate, hotel, mining, food retailing, automotive, health care, airlines, car rental, telecommunications, environmental, oil and gas exploration, oil field services, and distribution and other services. Stuart’s practice also includes advising investment firms on all aspects of fund formation and capital-raising. He represented Albertsons Companies and an investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management LP in the $9.2-billion acquisition of Safeway Inc., which won “Deal of the Year – Retail” at the 2015 ACG New York Champion’s Awards, as well as the related acquisition of SUPERVALU’s Albertsons, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s and related Osco and Sav-on in-store pharmacies and related non-control investment in SUPERVALU common stock, a deal that won “Retail Deal of the Year” at the 2014 M&A Atlas Awards: Global Major Markets. Stuart’s advice is informed not just by his more than 20 years as an SRZ partner, but also from having served as president of a leading investment firm that focuses on opportunistic investments globally.

Education

University of Michigan Law School, JD (Order of the Coif; Founder and Senior Editor, Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies); Yale University, BA., cum laude.