Proskauer Rose LLP is home to an impressive mergers and acquisitions team, with clients praising the group for its ‘excellent and broad expertise in mid-market deals’. The team leverages collaboration with the tax, data privacy and employee benefits team to provide full-service offerings to clients in both publicly and privately traded companies. From the New York office, Michael Ellis and Daniel Ganitsky co-lead the team, benefitting from the recent arrival of Sarah Stasny from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who acts as the firm’s head of US private equity transactions.
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Testimonials
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- 'They have advised clients on all conceivable types of transactions faced by middle-market investors. In short, they have lots of relevant experience and are able to pair that experience with team approach so that the client can interface directly with each of their collaborative partners. ’
- ‘As I mentioned, I really like Chris and Grant. Excellent partners.’
- ‘Excellent and broad expertise in mid-market deals with knowledge of private equity deal terms and conditions.’
- ‘Grant Darwin and Chris Ahn are fantastic to work with. They work really hard. They're detail-oriented. They're smart. They have provided us great services.’
- ‘Steven Peck is my primary contact on the M&A side. Steve stands out in his very pragmatic approach to problem solving. As compared to his competitors, he takes a commercial approach and helps to articulate risks and benefits in a succinct way. Steve also works quickly without wasted effort or talking, which is appreciated by everyone that works with him.
- ‘Grant Darwin - excellent at quarterbacking large complex transactions and incorporating a deal team with broad expertise and also strong at smaller deals done more efficiently with more limited resources. ’
- ‘Proskauer does an excellent job working as a team'
- 'They are able to leverage the entire firms expertise to provide a very comprehensive solution for middle-market investing. Given their depth of experience in the middle market, Proskauer also stands out in this way'
Key clients
- Houlihan Lokey, Inc.
- Fortress Credit Corp.
- Houlihan Lokey
- Stellex Capital
- Angeleno Group
- Diversis Capital
- QSC
- Dependable Highway Express
- CapitalSpring / Sizzling Platter
- VSS Capital Partners
- Fortress Credit Corp.
- Blue Owl Capital
- Cohere Capital
- JANA Partners
- Valsoft
- TCW
- Aranda Principal Strategies, STORY3 Capital Partners and Nexus Capital Management
- JANA Partners Management
- Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
- 180 Degree Capital Corp.
Practice head
Mike Ellis; Daniel Ganitsky; Sarah Stasny
Other key lawyers
Grant Darwin; Chris Ahn: Mike Mezzacappa; Steven Peck