Bio

Sebastian Fain focuses on M&A, activism defense and corporate governance. His experience is centered on domestic and cross-border M&A, including public company mergers, private equity acquisitions, joint ventures, complex business carve-outs and divestitures, hostile takeovers and defense, carve-out IPOs, spin-offs and split-offs. He also has experience representing clients in complex commercial agreements and in capital markets transactions, such as IPOs, secondary offerings, block trades, high-yield bond offerings and exchange offers. Sebastian was named as a “Dealmaker of the Year” by the American Lawyer and has been recognized as a leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A by, among others, Bloomberg “40 under 40”, Lawdragon, Legal 500, IFLR1000, and as a “Rising Star” by the MCAA. Sebastian also had essays, op-eds and articles published in The Financial Times, Reuters, Law360, The Recorder, The Deal, ABA Business Law, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Deal Lawyers, The M&A Journal, and Insights.