Hal J Leibowitz

Practice Areas

Mr. Leibowitz’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law for companies in the life sciences, technology, and services industries, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and public company counseling. He has previously served as chair of the firm’s Corporate Practice, chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, and vice chair of the Transactional Department.

Among the clients he represents are Akamai Technologies, Analogic, The Boston Consulting Group, Ensign-Bickford Industries, Hasbro, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Kadant, Kala Pharmaceuticals, MKS Instruments, PAREXEL International, PerkinElmer, Progress Software, PTC Therapeutics, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Xcerra Corporation.

Mr. Leibowitz has served as counsel in a wide range of merger and acquisition transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of numerous public and private companies, tender offers, exchange offers, and going private transactions.

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Professional Memberships

Mr. Leibowitz is a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations and a member of the American Bar Association's Section on Business Law, where he has served as chair of the Merger and Acquisitions Committee's Market Trends Subcommittee and on the Editorial Board of the Committee's Subcommittee on Public Company Acquisitions. In addition, he has chaired the ABA Market Trends Subcommittee's annual survey of deal points in the acquisition of public companies. Mr. Leibowitz is also a member of the Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance Partner Advisory Board, a think tank that discusses pressing issues facing the legal industry and formulates solutions to help colleagues run more effective businesses.

Personal

JD, Suffolk University Law School, 1985, magna cum laude

BA, Brandeis University, 1982, cum laude