Bio

Richard Climan is a preeminent M&A lawyer who has handled some of the most prominent and industry-changing acquisitions in the tech and life sciences sectors over the past three decades. He has been described as "one of the best legal minds in M&A" and a "gold-standard transactional lawyer." He is Global Head of Hogan Lovells' Tech M&A practice and sits on the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Leadership Team. Climan excels at negotiating and advising multinational clients on all types of acquisition transactions and related matters. In Chambers USA, he has a Band 1 ranking, being described by clients as "the dean of M&A," a “total star” and a “visionary.” He has been recognized by The National Law Journal as one of its inaugural technology law Trailblazers and one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. In each of the past five years, he was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. Since bringing the M&A group he leads to Hogan Lovells, Climan has led many high stakes deals, including Walmart’s ~ US$16 bn. cross-border acquisition of a 77% stake in Flipkart and Marvell Technology’s acquisition of publicly traded Inphi, valued at ~ US$10 bn. As an adjunct faculty member at UCLA School of Law and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, Climan co-taught, with former Delaware Chief Justice Leo Strine, a course titled "Real World M&A." For more than 25 years, Climan has been an active member of the ABA Bus. Law Section's M&A Committee, with over 5,000 members, serving as Committee Chair from 2002 to 2006. He co-chairs the ABA's annual Nat'l M&A Institute, now in its 25th year, and is the former Chair of the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute, now in its 50th year. He is founding Chair of the "Buyer Power Ratio" deal points study, launched in 2017. Climan lectures around the world on M&A-related matters and has presented at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Duke and University of Virginia law schools.