Doron Lipshitz
Partner
Doron Lipshitz is a partner in O’Melveny's New York office and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions and Restructuring Practices. He concentrates on corporate and financial matters, particularly public and private merger and acquisition transactions, venture capital and other private equity investments and divestitures and corporate restructuring. He 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, as well as such companies in these and other mergers & acquisitions transactions. He also regularly represents investment banking firms acting as financial advisors in M&A transactions.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representation of New Skies Satellites in connection with its sale to affiliates of The Blackstone Group
- Representation of Deutsche Telekom AG in its acquisitions of VoiceStream Wireless Corporation and Powertel
- 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 Coca-Cola FEMSA in its acquisition of Panamerican Beverages
- Representation of Synopsys in its acquisition of Numerical Technologies
- Representation of BNP Paribas in its acquisition of United California Bank
- Representation of Sensormatic Electronics in its sale to Tyco
- Representation of Cunningham Graphics International in its sale to Automatic Data Processing
- Representation of Star Cruises in its acquisition of Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Representation of Grupo Sanborns in its acquisition of CompUSA
- Representation of United Technologies Corporation in its acquisition of Cade Industries
- Representation of Jacor Communications in its sale to Clear Channel Communications
- 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 the creditors committee of Tropical Sportswear International in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization
- Representation of Sandell Asset Management in the Chapter 11 reorganization of Nextwave Telecom
- 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, Emisphere Technologies, and other public and private companies
- 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
Professional Activities
Member, New York State Bar Association; Law Society of England and Wales
Author, "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