Bio

With one eye squarely fixed on achieving his clients’ goals and the other focused on mitigating risks that could threaten their interests, Merrill Stone delivers transactions, finance, business, and compliance counsel informed by more than four decades of vast and varied experience. Having seen almost everything in his decades handling complex and consequential mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities, banking, and bankruptcy matters, he can quickly identify and address issues that matter to his clients and dispose of inconsequential distractions with equal speed. Merrill’s clear, pragmatic counsel, industry savvy, and sound legal and business judgment have facilitated countless transactions and helped clients in a wide range of industries seize opportunities and sidestep potential stumbling blocks. Merrill represents banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, transfer agencies, industrial companies, and other entities in licensing and regulatory matters, syndicated and private financings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings and workouts. Clients in a broad spectrum of industries, including fashion, retail, food and beverage, entertainment, and supply chains, have benefited from Merrill’s actionable guidance and substantive experience. The transactions Merrill has helped to shepherd to consummation range in size and complexity from relatively straightforward matters involving a few million dollars to 10- and 11-figure multiparty and cross-border deals implicating myriad legal, regulatory, financial, and practical issues. A frequent speaker on various legal, business, and finance topics, Merrill’s professional achievements have earned him inclusion in the Who​’s Who in America, Who​’s Who in the World, Who​’s Who in American Law, and Who​’s Who in the East directories.