Doron Lipshitz
Partner
Doron Lipshitz is a partner in O’Melveny’s New York office and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group. He concentrates on corporate and financial matters, particularly U.S. and cross-border public and private M&A transactions, including mergers, cash tender and exchange offers, stock and assets acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital and other private equity investments and divestitures and corporate restructuring. He also has significant experience in contested M&A transactions, proxy contests and takeover defense counseling.
Doron also provides advice regarding governance matters and the fiduciary duties of officers and directors to corporations and their boards. Doron regularly represents private funds in their investments and divestitures transactions involving public and private companies and represents public and private companies in broad range of M&A and financing transactions in various industries. He also represents investment banking firms acting as financial advisors in merger and acquisition transactions.
Doron is regularly quoted in the
Wall Street Journal,
Daily Deal and other financial, legal and popular press and has published extensively in leading periodicals on corporate governance, securities and Delaware corporate law matters.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representation of the special committees of Amway Japan Limited and Amway Asia Pacific Ltd. Boards of Directors in connection with “going private” transactions
- Representation of BNP Paribas in its acquisition of United California Bank
- Representation of Coca-Cola FEMSA in its acquisition of Panamerican Beverages
- Representation of Cunningham Graphics International in its sale to Automatic Data Processing
- Representation of Deutsche Telekom AG in its acquisitions of VoiceStream Wireless Corporation and Powertel
- Representation of Grupo Sanborns in its acquisition of CompUSA
- Representation of Jacor Communications in its sale to Clear Channel Communications
- Representation of the second largest shareholder of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, in a high-profile contest for corporate control of Lion’s Gate involving Carl Icahn and his related funds
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in connection with its ongoing investment in Lionsgate Entertainment, Inc., including during the company’s battle for control with entities controlled by Carl Icahn
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in its investment in L-1 Identity Solutions in connection with L-1’s acquisition of Digimarc Corporation
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in its investment in NationsHealth, Inc. in connection with NationsHealth's merger with and sale to ComVest Investment partners
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Loral Space & Communications
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in its investments in Loral Space & Communications
- Representation of MHR Fund Management in its investments in Emisphere Technologies
- Representation of New Skies Satellites in connection with its sale to affiliates of The Blackstone Group
- Representation of Salomon Smith Barney as financial advisor to Northrop Grumman in its acquisition of TRW
- Representation of Salomon Smith Barney as financial advisor to Conoco in its combination with Phillips Petroleum
- Representation of Sandell Asset Management in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Nextwave Telecom
- Representation of Sensormatic Electronics in its sale to Tyco
- Representation of Star Cruises in its acquisition of Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Representation of Synopsys in its acquisition of Numerical Technologies
- Representation of Tix Corporation in connection with negotiated resolution of contest for corporate control with significant stockholder
- Representation of the creditors committee of Tropical Sportswear International in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization
- Representation of United Technologies Corporation in its acquisition of Cade Industries
- Represented an investor in the acquisition of $1,600,000,000 of credit card assets of a failed bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver
Professional Activities
Member, New York State Bar Association; Law Society of England and Wales
Author, "Q&A With O'Melveny's Doron Lipshitz,"
Law360, October 2011; "Minority Investments in Public Companies: Selected Considerations for the Private Investor,"
The M&A Lawyer, January 2011 (with co-author David Schultz); "Frame of Reference,"
Private Equity Manager, December 14, 2009 (with co-author David Schultz); "A Cautionary Tale,"
The Deal, August 3, 2009 (with co-authors Spencer Klein and David Schultz); "Business is Business": Determining Proper Matters For Annual Meetings.
The M&A Lawyer, May 2009 (with co-author David Schultz); "A House Conflicted,"
The M&A Lawyer, June 2008, and
The Deal, March 20, 2008 (with co-author David Schultz);
"Safe but Sorry No More: Under SEC's Proposed Rule Amendment, Cash Acquirors Can Know the Best Price and Use Their Preferred Structure,"
The M&A Lawyer, April 2006; "Sale of Control Transactions: Pre-Agreement Auction or Post-Agreement Market Check,"
The M&A Lawyer, April 2004; "Merger and Acquisition Transactions in the Sarbanes-Oxley Era,"
The M&A Journal, August 2003
Professorship, Taught Contracts and conflict of laws at University College London, 1992-1993