Christopher Giordano > DLA Piper LLP (US) > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

DLA Piper LLP (US) works with a burgeoning roll of blue-chips on an ever growing volume of domestic and cross-border M&A. The US-based team, which maintains a strong foothold in the middle-market space, is increasingly engaged in multi-billion dollar deals in an array of sectors, including healthcare, consumer goods, real estate, manufacturing and technology. Christopher Giordano – the newly appointed chair of the M&A group – specialises in acquisitions, divestitures, securities law issues and corporate governance; he offers advice to a mix of private and publicly traded companies and REIT sponsors. Jonathan Klein is the other key point of contact in the team; he has a strong background in representing companies in negotiated deals, as well as bidders in contested transactions. Both practitioners are based in New York.