Peter H Lieberman

Practice Areas

Corporate

Private Equity

Mergers & Acquisitions

Capital Markets

Food, Beverage & Agribusiness

Career

Peter H. Lieberman is Co-Chair of the Global Corporate Practice. He has more than 30 years of broad experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, public company and hedge fund transactions, start-up and venture capital financings, and complex securities trading and structuring matters. Throughout his career, Peter has been involved in advising boards of directors, special committees, and controlling interest holders on conflict, governance, change of control, and similar matters. Peter brings to his work a diverse transactional background and trained at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he was involved in both hostile and negotiated transactions (including proxy contests and the implementation of takeover defenses). According to the 2022 edition of Chambers USA, sources say Peter is “an extraordinary attorney” and “simply amongst the finest attorneys and providers of legal and commercial judgment I have ever worked with” who provides “the highest levels of sophistication, service, and commercial awareness.”

Concentrations:

Mergers and acquisitions

Private equity

Hedge fund (including PIPE) transactions and securities trading and hedging compliance

Corporate and securities matters and structuring

Professional Memberships

Former Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University School of Law

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2010-2022

Personal

J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1988; Editor, Harvard Law Review

Master's in Public Policy, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1988

A.B., University of Michigan, 1984; Phi Beta Kappa; Angell Scholar