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Hal Leibowitz
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)
(Leading partners)Recognized as ‘experts’ in the M&A space, WilmerHale works across the financial services, life sciences, and tech sectors, and frequently serves a client base comprising start-ups and investment banks. Offering an interdisciplinary service by liaising with the firm’s IP, tax, and employment teams, the group is co-led by Boston-based duo Hal Leibowitz and Joseph Conahan, who are well-versed in corporate and securities law, and divestitures and acquisitions, respectively. In New York, Andy Alin concentrates on representing financial institutions in SPAC transactions, Mike Gilligan advises private equity funds in cross-border buy- and sell-side M&A, while the ‘terrific’ Chris Barnstable-Brown has ample tech sector M&A expertise, and Tal Hacohen focuses on joint ventures and corporate restructurings. From Washington DC, the ‘highly experienced’ Stephanie Evans covers business expansions and strategic investments, while Boston-based Andrew Bonnes handles public company counseling. In Denver, Keith Trammell is proficient in guiding clients through hostile acquisition proposals and leveraged buyouts, while Will Myer is recommended for his strengths in financing transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation