Olshan Law: Attorney Profiles: Kenneth A. Schlesinger

KENNETH A. SCHLESINGER
Partner / New York

Kenneth A. Schlesinger is a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in SEC reporting requirements and regulations (including Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933) and other public company obligations. He has extensive experience representing public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, asset purchase and stock purchase transactions.

Mr. Schlesinger also has substantial general corporate experience including employment agreements, stockholder agreements, partnership agreements and operating agreements.

Additionally, Mr. Schlesinger has represented underwriters and placement agents in connection with public and private offerings and public companies in connection with their initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, regulatory compliance as well as corporate governance and securities law issues.

Mr. Schlesinger was named for inclusion to the New York Super Lawyers list, a Thomson Reuters lawyer rating service, for 2010 and 2011.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Represented a New York Stock Exchange listed hospitality company in a $800 million merger with a private equity firm.

• Represented a NASDAQ listed restaurant company in a $600 million merger with a private equity firm.

• Represented a NASDAQ listed insurance company in a $220 million merger with a New York Stock Exchange listed company.

• Represented a NASDAQ listed sporting goods company in a $185 million merger with a British public company.

• Represented a NASDAQ listed technology company in the sale of all of its operating assets to a New York Stock Exchange listed company.

• Represented a technology company, whose shareholders included several leading venture capital funds and a NASDAQ listed technology company, in the sale of the company to a publicly-traded Canadian corporation.

• Represented a publicly held corporation in the purchase and subsequent sale of a manufacturing company.

• Represented a publicly-held company in its acquisition of an oil rig business.

• Represented a construction company in its merger with a publicly-held shell corporation.

• Represented a publicly-held shell corporation in the sale of its stock to a leading entertainment entrepreneur.

• Represented a specified acquisition company in a proposed acquisition of a bank holding company.

• Represented a paper company in its merger with a publicly-held shell corporation.

Securities

• Represented numerous listed companies in self tenders of shares of their common stock.

• Represented numerous issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and secondary public offerings.

• Represented numerous public and private companies in private placement financings.

• Represented a private investor in its debt and equity investment in a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company.

Restructurings/Debt Financing

• Represented a former NASDAQ listed company in the sale of various assets through bankruptcy auctions.

• Represented numerous companies in connection with their bank credit facilities.

• Represented a publicly-traded technology company in a restructuring and re-capitalization which enabled the company to avoid bankruptcy.

• Represented a publicly-traded furniture company in its reemergence as a public reporting company following its bankruptcy.

BAR ADMISSIONS
1988, New York

MEMBER
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York