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WilmerHale Offices

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Hal Leibowitz

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1 617 526 6461 HAL.LEIBOWITZ@WILMERHALE.COM

Work Department

Corporate Governance and Disclosure ; Cross-Border Transactions ; Life Sciences ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Private Equity ; Technology

Position

Partner in WilmerHale’s Boston Office

Co-Chair, Mergers and Acquisitions Practice

Career

Hal Leibowitz is co-chair of WilmerHale’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He has previously served as chair of the firm’s Corporate Practice and as vice chair of the Transactional Department. Mr. Leibowitz’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law matters for companies in the life sciences, technology and services industries, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and public company counseling.

Among the clients he represents are Akamai Technologies, Analogic, The Boston Consulting Group, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Hasbro, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Kadant, Kala Pharmaceuticals, MKS Instruments, PAREXEL International, PerkinElmer, Progress Software, PTC Therapeutics, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Xcerra Corporation.

Mr. Leibowitz has served as counsel in a wide range of merger and acquisition transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of numerous public and private companies, tender offers, exchange offers, and going private transactions.

Professional Activities

Mr. Leibowitz is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations and a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Business Law, where he has served as chair of the Merger and Acquisitions Committee’s Market Trends Subcommittee and on the Editorial Board of the Committee’s Subcommittee on Public Company Acquisitions. In addition, he has chaired the ABA Market Trends Subcommittee’s annual survey of deal points in the acquisition of public companies. Mr. Leibowitz is also a member of the Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance Partner Advisory Board, a think tank that discusses pressing issues facing the legal industry and formulates solutions to help colleagues run more effective businesses.

Memberships

Massachusetts

Education

JD, Suffolk University Law School, 1985

BA, Brandeis University, 1982

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

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Hal Leibowitz – WilmerHale

The ‘strong, very experienced team’ at WilmerHale delivers advice across a broad variety of transactional matters, including stock-for-stock mergers, cash mergers, and joint ventures, frequently leveraging its significant cross-border capabilities to advise on multijurisdictional M&A. Located in Boston, Hal Leibowitz and Joseph Conahan co-chair the practice and specialize in representing buyers, sellers, and boards of directors in joint ventures and securities law matters. In New York, Andy Alin regularly acts on behalf of financial tech companies and private equity sponsors, Chris Barnstable-Brown focuses on the tech and life science sectors, and Mike Gilligan is well-versed with providing buy-side as well as sell-side advice on transactional matters. In Washington DC, Stephanie Evans is knowledgeable on strategic alliances, while Denver’s Kieth Trammell acts on behalf of acquirers and buyout funds. In New York, Tal Hacohen is a further name to note, and Andrew Bonnes stands out for public company counseling and divestitures from Boston.

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