Craig Sklar

Practice Areas

Asset and Wealth Management, Business Transactions Group (M&A/PE/VC), Corporate Group, Corporate Finance, Family Office, Private Equity, Cross-Border Transactions, Investment Management and Broker-Dealer Transactions, Maritime Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions and Joint Ventures, Private Equity Transactions, Secondary Transactions, Seed Transactions, Sell-Side Transactions, Venture Capital Transactions, Financial Institution Risk Management.

Career

Craig A. Sklar is a partner and the Co-Head of Seward & Kissel’s Corporate M&A Practice and Co-Lead of the Wealth Management Team. Craig joined the firm in 1998 after practicing corporate and commercial litigation for three years. He also served on Seward & Kissel’s Management Committee for 11 years.

Craig represents public and private companies, private investment funds, investment management firms, financial institutions, business owners and managers in connection with a variety of business transactions, financings and general corporate matters. Representative transactions include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, debt and venture capital transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and seed capital arrangements. His general corporate work includes the formation and organization of various business entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, drafting letters of intent, confidentiality agreements, shareholder agreements, employment and consulting agreements, non-compete agreements and various other forms of commercial arrangements. In addition, Craig acts as an editor for IM Deals® (a blog covering investment management industry transactions).

Professional Memberships

Craig is admitted to practice law in New York and Connecticut and is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Connecticut Bar Association.

Personal

Craig received a B.S. degree, cum laude, from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1992, and a J.D. degree, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law in 1995 where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif (top 10%) and was a member of the Urban Law Journal.