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Richard E. Climan is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, an international law firm with approximately 1,100 attorneys worldwide. He is a member of the firm’s global Executive Committee.
Mr. Climan regularly negotiates and advises clients on a broad variety of acquisition transactions and related matters, including mergers, divestitures, auction transactions, tender offers, defensive strategies, going-private transactions, leveraged buy-outs and cross-border transactions. He has handled some of the most prominent acquisitions in the technology and life sciences sectors.
Mr. Climan was named one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by the National Law Journal. In 2011, he was recognized by Who's Who Legal as among the 10 most highly regarded M&A lawyers in the world. He is an active member of the M&A Committee of the ABA’s Section of Business Law, an international committee with more than 3,500 members. He was the Chair of that Committee from 2002 to 2006, and currently serves on the Committee's Executive Council.
Mr. Climan is a frequent author and lecturer on M&A-related topics. He moderates and participates in M&A-related presentations at Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and the University of Virginia Law Schools and, as a member of the adjunct faculty at UCLA School of Law, he co-teaches (with Chancellor Leo Strine of the Delaware Court of Chancery) a course titled Real World M&A. He has appeared as a commentator on CNBC’s nationally broadcast Squawk Box program and on Bloomberg News. In addition, he is the Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s annual National Institute on Negotiating Business Acquisitions, and is the Chair of the Securities Regulation Institute, sponsored by Northwestern School of Law. He is a member of the Program Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation and is also a member of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
Mr. Climan received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.