Practice Description:

Brian A. Haskel, is a leader of the firm's Corporate and Securities practice group and partner in the firm's Financial Services, Hedge Funds and Capital Markets Group.  Brian is a highly experienced and creative corporate attorney, with extensive transactional experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and counseling on general corporate and securities laws matters.  Brian has represented public and private companies, individual investors, private equity, venture capital and hedge funds, as well as management, issuers and underwriters, in connection with a diverse range of transactions and matters, including public and private acquisitions, dispositions and activist investments, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities, reorganizations, debt restructurings, exchange offer, consent solicitations and workouts.   As a partner in the firm's Financial Services, Hedge Funds and Capital Markets Group, Brian routinely represents clients in connection with acquisitions, strategic and seeding investments and joint ventures involving fund managers, as well as providing general legal counsel on issues involving investment management and private investment funds.

In addition to his corporate practice, Brian is also active in the firm's Art Law practice group, and represents clients in a wide variety of commercial art transactions as well as the structuring and formation of art investment funds.

Brian has been selected for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers for 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Presentations:

Speaker on Panel at Art Basel Miami Beach entitled "Art Investment Vehicles: An Asset Based Investment for the 21st Century," December 5, 2008.

Publications: 

Treatise Negotiating and Drafting Contract Boilerplate, Chapter 16 Amendment and Waiver (2004).

Significant Matters:

 

Brian’s private equity, M&A and transactional experience includes the follow representations:

• Fund managers in connection with formation and other matters.
• Private equity funds in connection with investments including in, real estate assets, fund managers, fine wines, timber, PIPES, art and other asset classes.
• Numerous fund managers and investors in connection with the acquisition and disposition of interests in fund managers.
• ILEC in connection with a $50 billion merger of equals.
• CLEC in connection with a bankruptcy reorganization.
• Private equity investor in connection with the $120 million acquisition of pre-paid calling card company.
• Private equity investor in connection with the $40 million disposition of the assets of a wireless paging company.
• Healthcare company management team in connection with its negotiations with a private equity investment, a subsequent sale to a new private equity group.
• National fitness company in connection with numerous funding transactions with existing investors and banks.
• Warranty company in connection with $75 million mezzanine financing and subsequent financings.
• Manufacturer of recreational sports equipment in connection with $15 million mezzanine financing.
• Buyers and sellers in Section 363 sales of assets in bankruptcy.
• Investor group in connection with a hostile bid to acquire a REIT.
• Management of a smokeless tobacco company in connection with a $150 million purchase of a cigarette paper company in an leveraged buyout from a private equity group.
• Private equity investor in connection with a going private tender offer of an insurance company.