Profile: Peter Allan Atkins
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Law Firm: | Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP |
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| Office: |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP Four Times Square 10036 |
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| City: | New York | |
| State: | New York | |
| Country: | USA | |
| Tel: | +1 212 735 3700 | |
| Fax: | +1 917 777 3700 | |
| Email: | peter.atkins@skadden.com |
Mergers and Acquisitions
Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions
Peter Allan Atkins has been involved since 1968 in the firm's corporate, securities and financial practice areas, including extensive involvement in the mergers and acquisitions field. He has represented acquirers (both US and non-US), targets and investment banks in a large number of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers (negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. He has been directly involved in all phases of these transactions, including initial planning, structuring, negotiation, implementation and advice.Mr Atkins also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues, corporate compliance matters and internal investigations and financing transactions.
Among the industries in which Mr Atkins has had substantial transactional involvement are the airline, defence and aerospace, energy, financial institutions, forest products, health care, information technology, insurance, media and telecommunications, retail and utilities industries.
Mr Atkins' corporate governance-related experience includes advising boards of directors and board committees regarding the changing corporate governance environment and regarding current and prospective governance requirements and attitudes (including under Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC rules, NYSE/NASDAQ rules and state law), and advising boards of directors and special committees of directors in crisis situations and where the satisfaction by directors of their fiduciary duties is particularly subject to scrutiny.
Mr Atkins is involved in the firm's senior management, including serving as a member of the firm's policy committee and as chairman of its client committee. He has written various articles and lectures on corporate and securities topics, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.
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
Peter Allan Atkins has been involved since 1968 in the firm's corporate, securities and financial practice areas, including extensive involvement in the mergers and acquisitions field. He has represented acquirers (both US and non-US), targets and investment banks in a large number of mergers, acquisitions, takeovers (negotiated and contested), leveraged buyouts and joint ventures. He has been directly involved in all phases of these transactions, including initial planning, structuring, negotiation, implementation and advice.Mr Atkins also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate, securities and business-related matters, including directors' duties and responsibilities and other aspects of corporate governance, disclosure issues, corporate compliance matters and internal investigations and financing transactions.
Among the industries in which Mr Atkins has had substantial transactional involvement are the airline, defense and aerospace, energy, financial institutions, forest products, health care, information technology, insurance, media and telecommunications, retail and utilities industries.
Mr Atkins' corporate governance-related experience includes advising boards of directors and board committees regarding the changing corporate governance environment and regarding current and prospective governance requirements and attitudes (including under Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC rules, NYSE/NASDAQ rules and state law), and advising boards of directors and special committees of directors in crisis situations and where the satisfaction by directors of their fiduciary duties is particularly subject to scrutiny.
Mr Atkins is involved in the firm's senior management, including serving as a member of the firm's policy committee and as chairman of its client committee. He has written various articles and lectures on corporate and securities topics, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.