| Biography:
Bruce Lieb is a member of Proskauer’s seven-person Executive Committee and
the immediate past co-Chair of Proskauer’s Corporate Department. Although
Bruce has a broad background in general corporate and securities law, he has
concentrated his practice on private equity transactions, including mergers
and acquisitions, the formation of private investment funds, and equity and
debt financings. Bruce has extensive experience in the representation of financial
services companies, including investment banks, investment advisers and bank
and thrift holding companies.
Bruce has been selected by Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers in America, the International
Who’s Who of Private Fund Lawyers and New York Super Lawyers, and is a member of the Private Investment
Fund Forum, a group of partners in New York law firms who focus on private investment
funds. He was also recognized in the 2007 edition of US Legal 500.
Bruce has represented J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., for more than twenty years,
in connection with private equity investments, including fund investments, investments
in major public and private leveraged buyout transactions, venture capital investments
in start-up and later stage companies, incubation projects and technology spin-offs.
In addition, Bruce has represented J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., as sponsor and
as placement agent, in connection with the formation and placement of private
equity funds, debt funds, hedge funds and funds of funds.
Bruce also has represented Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Ranieri & Co., Hyperion Partners and other financial services companies in connection with private equity funds
and transactions.
Bruce has substantial experience in leveraged buyout and other business combination
transactions, having represented private equity funds, institutional investors
and management in these transactions.
Bruce is a cum laude graduate of New York University School of Law,
where he was a Note and Comment Editor of the Law Review and was elected
to the Order of the Coif.
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