Bio

David Sussman is the managing partner of Duane Morris' Newark office. Mr. Sussman practices in the area of corporate law with a focus on private equity, capital markets and tax. Mr. Sussman chairs the firm's Private Investment Funds practice and serves as a team lead for the Duane Morris Private Equity industry group. He also is a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Mr. Sussman's private equity experience includes launching investment funds, including private equity, hedge, real estate and venture capital funds. He regularly advises funds in connection with their operations, including the acquisition and disposition of such investments. He also advises investors in connection with secondary market purchases and sales of private equity fund interests. Mr. Sussman also represents clients in transactional tax work. His corporate tax practice includes all aspects of corporate taxation, including tax-free spin-offs and taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions of subchapter C corporations and subchapter S corporations, including forward subsidiary mergers, reverse subsidiary mergers and taxable stock sales. He represents partnerships in matters related to forming and negotiating sophisticated and complex joint ventures, including the preparation of partnership and limited liability company agreements and the purchase and sale of partnership and limited liability company interests. Mr. Sussman received an LL.M. in 2001 from New York University School of Law. He is a 1996 cum laude graduate of New England School of Law and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.