Complex business transactions and general corporate counseling, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts of private and public companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, recapitalizations, debt and equity restructurings and workouts, executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements, and private equity and mezzanine fund formations. Lead counsel for numerous blue-chip clients in hundreds of transactions (domestic and cross-border) ranging from a few million dollars to a billion dollars, across a wide variety of industries. Partner since 1998 and a senior member of Chicago Corporate Practice Committee.