With DistinctionOrder of the Coif
Managing Editor, Cornell Law Review
U.S. Army, 1965-1967
New York City Bar (Former Chair of Committee on Securities Regulation)
Best Lawyers in America
New York's Top Lawyers
Global Counsel 3000
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in the East
Who's Who in American Law
Chambers USA: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity Nationwide 2008-2010
BTI Consulting Group
New York Super Lawyers
Arnie Jacobs has a broad background in general corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance.
He has been listed for many years in Best Lawyers in America, New York's Top Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in American Law. He was called "one of the deans of securities law" by Crain's New York Business. He was one of eight New York mergers and acquisitions/securities lawyers profiled in the July 2004 Corporate Counsel. He also was nationally ranked in Chambers USA 2009, and cited as one of the 31 "Most Valued Players" in the United States in client service by BTI Consulting Group, the premier rating agency for client satisfaction, for 2008 and 2009. Arnie was the subject of the first New York Super Lawyers “Brilliant Careers” question and answer page in September 2008. The book 2009 Legal (US) 500 listed him as one of 12 “Leading Lawyers” for large M&A deals.
His practice includes representing diverse private equity funds and public companies, and working on public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions.
He twice was a member of Proskauer’s six-person Executive Committee, which governs the firm. As a result of his most recent election to the Executive Committee, he gave up his position as co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department.
Arnie has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School and as a lecturer at Cornell Law School. He has testified on securities legislation before committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Arnie is the author of 25 books and numerous articles on various aspects of securities and corporate law, which have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court a number of times, as well as in hundreds of other cases and authorities. As a result of one of those articles, he holds the world's record for the law review article with the most footnotes (4,824 to be exact). His books include:
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