Kenneth Mantel > Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP Offices
1325 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019
NEW YORK
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Kenneth Mantel
Work Department
Shareholder Activism Practice
Position
Partner
Career
Kenneth Mantel guides equity investors through dynamic, high-stakes engagements to achieve their investment goals, including collaborative engagement with boards and management teams, director election contests, acquisition proposals, and opposition campaigns, providing 360-degree views of challenges and opportunities, and tailored solutions that deliver results.
Ken advises leading investment funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals investing with public companies, inside the U.S. and internationally, on pathways to achieving their investment goals. Responsive and easy to work with, Ken knows from experience that no two clients or situations are the same, and that legal and strategic advice needs to reflect that. He works with clients to assess the situation, ascertain potential options, address legal issues, and implement a comprehensive strategic approach.
Ken has experience guiding clients through the broad spectrum of situations and issues they encounter during the course of private and public engagement with public companies and their boards and management teams, including initial stakebuilding, private discussions on strategic and governance matters, public letter-writing campaigns, director election contests, acquisition proposals, opposing company transactions or other proposals, vindication of shareholders’ rights, SEC reporting and disclosure requirements (including Schedules 13D and 13G), and general strategy.
Ken also represents corporate clients in significant securities, transactional, and general business matters, ranging from mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and initial public offerings to advising on securities laws and SEC reporting, corporate governance, business partnerships, and commercial contracts.
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006
B.A., cum laude, Duke University, 2003
Personal
- Ranked as a “Leading Lawyer” in Corporate/M&A: Shareholder Activism by Chambers USA, 2025
- Recognized as a “Recommended Lawyer” in The Legal 500 United States guide for M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Shareholder Activism – Advice to Shareholders, 2021-2025
- Named to the New York Metro Super Lawyers list, 2022-2024
- Named a “Rising Star” by New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2014-2021
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
Remaining at the summit of the shareholder activism field, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP‘s New York-based dedicated practice leads some of the largest and most innovative campaigns for the most prominent activist funds, helping to strengthen board accountability and increase trust in corporate governance across a wide array of industries and drives trends in the wider activist field. The practice’s attorneys combine a range of approaches in order to advise shareholders, covering activist, governance-related, and company negotiations during campaigns. The department is led by Andrew Freedman, a preeminent figure in the shareholder activism field who is experienced in working with both the largest activist funds and smaller, newly-launched activist investment funds in high-stakes, cross-border proxy contests, achieving many precedent-setting victories, and Ryan Nebel, who focuses on shareholder engagement as well as withhold campaigns, consent solicitations and settlement negotiations in the context of corporate transactions. The group can also mobilize the talents of the highly experienced Chair emeritus Steve Wolosky, a proxy contest and hostile takeover specialist, and other leading partners are Meagan Reda, Kenneth Mantel, and Rebecca Van Derlaske.