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     Focus: cross-border M&A; investment management, shipping and digital media industries.  

     Market-leading transactions: Act on market-leading transactions for clients within our focus sectors including: for the investment management, broker-dealer and related industries Kudu/Bingham Osborne; Kudu/Versus; iM Global/Scharf; Marex/Rosenthal Collins; TIG/Kudu; TIG/Romspen; Cramer Rosenthal/Wilmington Trust; APMEX/One Gold; First Long Island Investors/Kudu and Forbes Family Trust/Optima deals; for the shipping and offshore drilling industry, the Ocean Rig/Transocean; Poseidon/Global Ship Lease; DryShips/Heidmar and Ridgebury Tankers/Riverstone deals.  We also have market leading expertise handling dozens of seed investment deals involving private fund managers annually.

        A “go-to” firm for middle-market negotiated M&A for businesses across all sectors, including international deals and deals involving private equity firms. These recently included: PESCM/Ethos (veterinary); BBRC Private Equity/Hot Yoga (fitness); Topo Research/Gartner (market research); Constellation Advisors/TZP (professional services) and BBRC Private Equity/Plant Therapy (wellness branded consumer products).

            Among New York-based mid-sized law firms, Seward & Kissel is unusual (if not unique) in offering first tier transactional capabilities for international, middle-market M&A deals.  The majority of our clients are non-US based or have international business operations.

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Corporate/M&A

James E Abbott
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James E Abbott
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Craig Sklar
6
Craig Sklar
Head of Corporate/M&A
6
Band 6
Nick Katsanos
6
Nick Katsanos
6
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Danielle Lemberg
Danielle Lemberg
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Members

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Craig Sklar

Craig Sklar

Head of Department

Gerhard Anderson

James E Abbott

James E Abbott

Head of Department

Meir Grossman

Nick Katsanos

Clients

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Agrifos Partners

DryShips Inc.

First Long Island Investors

Kudu Investment Management

Ocean Rig UDW Inc.

Pet Emergency & Specialty Care of Marin

Poseidon Containers Holdings

Sandler O'Neill + Partners

TIG Advisors

UBM plc

iM Square

Industries

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Banks

Broker-Dealer

Financial Services

Health Care

Investment Management

Media

Pharmaceuticals

Private Equity

Seed Investment Deals

Shipping

Software & Computer Services

Technology

Transportation