Profile: Allen Finkelson
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Law Firm: | Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP |
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Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP Worldwide Plaza 825 Eighth Avenue 10019-7475 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 474 1262 | |
| Fax: | +1 212 474 3700 | |
| Email: | afinkelson@cravath.com |
Mergers and Acquisitions
Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions
Allen Finkelson is a partner in the Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP corporate department, where he focuses on matters related to mergers and acquisitions. His clients have included Bowater, Bristol Myers Squibb, Chevron, Clorox, IBM, Sprint Nextel and UAL.Allen has been involved with a number of significant transactions including representing Chevron in connection with its competition with CNOOC to acquire Unocal; the board of MCI in connection with the competing takeover bids from Verizon and Qwest; Sprint in its merger with Nextel; Clorox in its repurchase of its shares from Henkel; CBS in its merger with Viacom; UAL in its proposed acquisition of US Airways and its white squire defense of Air Canada; WorldCom in its merger with MCI; IBM in its unsolicited acquisition of Lotus and its acquisition of numerous other software companies, including, most recently, Rational Software; NTT DoCoMo in restructuring its strategic investment in AT&T Wireless; Dean Witter in its merger with Morgan Stanley; Boeing in its merger with McDonnell Douglas and its acquisition of the aerospace and defense business of Rockwell; and Wells Fargo in its unsolicited acquisition of First Interstate.
Allen was cited as being one of the country's preeminent practitioners in the mergers and acquisitions arena in Chambers USA 2007: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Cravath's mergers and acquisitions practice received a high ranking in the publication for having "a host of no-nonsense, to-the-point dealdoers" who "have continued to attract key market deals". Allen was also recently named in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 as a leader in mergers and acquisitions law.
Allen was born in New York, New York. He received a BA magna cum laude from St Lawrence University in 1968, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Columbia Law School in 1971, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Allen joined Cravath in 1971 and became a partner in 1977. In 1983, he left Cravath to be a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions group at Lehman Brothers, returning to Cravath in 1985. Allen is a member of the board of directors of Range Resources Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed independent oil and gas company.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
Corporate Governance
Biography: Corporate Governance
Allen Finkelson is a partner in the Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP corporate department, where he focuses on matters related to mergers and acquisitions. His clients have included Bowater, Bristol Myers Squibb, Chevron, Clorox, IBM, Sprint Nextel and UAL.Allen has been involved with a number of significant transactions including representing Chevron in connection with its competition with CNOOC to acquire Unocal; the Board of MCI in connection with the competing takeover bids from Verizon and Qwest; Sprint in its merger with Nextel; Clorox in its repurchase of its shares from Henkel; CBS in its merger with Viacom; UAL in its proposed acquisition of US Airways and its white squire defense of Air Canada; WorldCom in its merger with MCI; IBM in its unsolicited acquisition of Lotus and its acquisition of numerous other software companies, including, most recently, Rational Software; NTT DoCoMo in restructuring its strategic investment in AT&T Wireless; Dean Witter in its merger with Morgan Stanley; Boeing in its merger with McDonnell Douglas and its acquisition of the aerospace and defence business of Rockwell; and Wells Fargo in its unsolicited acquisition of First Interstate.
Allen was cited as being one of the country's preeminent practitioners in the mergers and acquisitions arena in Chambers USA 2007: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, Cravath's mergers and acquisitions practice received a high ranking in the publication for having "a host of no-nonsense, to-the-point dealdoers" who "have continued to attract key market deals". Allen was also recently named in The Best Lawyers in America 2008 as a leader in mergers and acquisitions law.
Allen was born in New York. He received a BA magna cum laude from St Lawrence University in 1968, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD from Columbia Law School in 1971, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. Allen joined Cravath in 1971 and became a partner in 1977. In 1983, he left Cravath to be a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions group at Lehman Brothers, returning to Cravath in 1985. Allen is a member of the board of directors of Range Resources Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange listed independent oil and gas company.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.