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Weinstein, Adam K.

Adam K. Weinstein

Partner
  • Corporate Governance
  • M&A
  • Private Equity

Biography

ADAM WEINSTEIN represents large-cap and middle-market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in leveraged acquisitions, mergers, strategic investments, growth financings and similar transactions. For the last 20-plus years, Adam has served as a trusted adviser to a mega-cap private equity fund and its affiliates and portfolio companies in many of its complex, global leveraged buyout/carve-out transactions and public company acquisitions.

Adam is also actively involved in advising private equity investors in the management of their portfolio companies, including:

  • liquidity events, including private sales and public offerings, add-on acquisitions and investments, divestitures, strategic joint ventures and alliances
  • liquidity rights, including drag-along rights, forced sale arrangements, tag-along rights, put and call rights, rights of first refusal and rights of first offer
  • corporate governance rights, including board election rights, board and board committee composition and board and shareholder voting rights, including minority and other shareholder protections
  • day-to-day executive compensation, labor and employment, environmental, tax, intellectual property and litigation matters

Adam is recommended in The Legal 500 U.S. 2017–2018 for M&A: Middle-Market.

Credentials

Admissions & Certifications
  • New York
Education
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1994, cum laude
  • Cornell University, B.S., 1988

News & Insights

  • Quoted, “Looming Challenges Unlikely To Cool Red-Hot M&A Market,” Law360, January 3, 2022
  • Quoted, “Private Equity Revisits Strategies to Avoid Failed Bids,” Private Equity News, April 16, 2018
  • Author, “The PE Way,” The Deal, November 14, 2011