Barbara J Shander

Barb Shander is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group and Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Office. Barb advises private equity funds and their portfolio companies on structuring and negotiating complex business deals in a broad variety of industries. These transactions include strategic US and global mergers and acquisitions, investments, dispositions, equity financings, joint ventures, commercial agreements, incentive equity and other compensation plans, leveraged dividends, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. Barb represents buyers and sellers in transactions involving privately held businesses, and subsidiaries and divisions of public companies, and has experience in rollup, corporate carve-out, and distressed transactions.

Barb represents numerous private equity funds, ranging from lower middle-market funds to multibillion-dollar funds. In addition to advising institutional investors on portfolio investments and buy-out transactions, Barb has served as outside general counsel to numerous companies, and advises them on a variety of legal matters. She has led numerous transactions of varying sizes in several sectors including healthcare, financial services, retail, technology, telecommunications, and manufacturing.

JD, 1995

Villanova University School of Law (magna cum laude)

BS, Accounting, 1992

University of Delaware (cum laude)