Bio

With over 30 years of experience, Don Mcdermett represents clients in a wide variety of corporate, securities and transactional matters. With experience both inside a major corporation and as lead outside counsel to substantial businesses, he brings focused perspective and insight to complex corporate and transactional projects. Don has led a myriad of merger and acquisition transactions across various industries and geographies, with a particular focus on transactions in the technology and telecommunications industries. He provides strategic counseling on negotiated mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures, as well as tax-free spin-offs, corporate reorganizations and recapitalizations. Additionally, Don represents both issuers and investment banking firms in traditional IPOs, SPACs, and other registered securities offerings, private placements, PIPE’s, venture capital and private equity financings and exchange offers. He counsels both public and private companies on corporate governance matters (including representation of boards, audit committees, and special committees), securities law compliance and disclosure matters, executive compensation matters, and ESG and activist investor matters, including proxy contests and the evaluation, design and implementation of “poison pill” and other defensive measures.