| Biography:
A partner in Proskauer Rose LLP’s Corporate Department, Peter Samuels is co-chair of our Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He has been engaged in a wide variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings on behalf of institutional investors and issuers, joint ventures, debt restructurings, and bankruptcy reorganizations, as well as counseling on numerous other matters. He has broad experience in serving as corporate counsel for public companies in all aspects of their securities filings and regulatory compliance, as well as transactional matters.
Among the clients that Peter regularly advises are Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.; Biovail Corporation; Icahn Enterprises, L.P.; Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc.; and W.R. Huff Asset Management. Illustrative transactions handled by Peter include Icahn Enterprises’ $1.9 billion acquisition of Carl C. Icahn’s partnership interests in the management company and general partners of the Icahn hedge funds; Andrx Corporation’s $1.9 billion merger with Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Price Communications Corporation’s $1.7 billion sale of its Price Communications Corporation Wireless subsidiary to Verizon Wireless; and Overseas Shipholding’s $1 billion vessel construction and financing program with Kvaerner Group. In transactions where Peter has represented financial advisors, illustrative transactions include GTECH Holdings Corporation's acquisition by Lottomatica SpA; Audiovox Corporation's sale of its wireless division to UTStarcom, Inc.; Samsonite Corporation's restructuring of senior and subordinated indebtedness; the debt/equity exchange and financial restructuring of AirGate PCS, Inc.; Fidelity National Information Systems, Inc.'s acquisition by its majority parent, Fidelity National Financial, Inc.; WorkFlow Management, Inc.'s acquisition by the Perseus/Renaissance private equity group; and the sale of American Vantage Companies' media division to Genius Products, Inc.
Peter counsels boards of directors on corporate governance, affiliated party transactions, and related matters. He has also written on employment and employee termination agreements, and represents both employers and executives in connection with such agreements.
A lecturer on a number of legal subjects, Peter has acted for many years as Chair and member of Practising Law Institute seminars on securities laws and the negotiation and drafting of acquisition and financing agreements. He was recently recognized in the US Legal 500 for Mergers & Acquisitions and is included in New York Super Lawyers. He is a member of the M&A Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Peter holds an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School.
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