Eleazer Klein

Practice Areas

Chair of the M&A and Securities Group, co-chair of the global Shareholder Activism Group and serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Practices in the areas of shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, securities law and regulatory compliance. He represents activists, investment banks and companies in matters ranging from corporate governance and control to proxy contests and defensive strategies. Ele works on numerous activist campaigns and related transactions every year for some of the largest private investment groups and investment banks in the United States and abroad. In addition, he advises on private investments in public equity (PIPEs), initial public offerings and secondary offerings, venture capital financing, and indenture defaults and interpretation, and he counsels clients in the regulatory areas of insider trading, short selling, Sections 13 and 16, Rule 144, insider trading and Regulation M/Rule 105.

Personal

• Yale Law School (J.D., 1991)

• Senior Editor, The Yale Law Journal

• Yale University Graduate and Professional Senate - Law School Senator

• Brooklyn College, CUNY (B.S., summa cum laude, 1987)