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Richard Bernstein is an associate in the firm's Corporate Department. He provides counsel to major corporations, family-owned businesses and pooled investment vehicles on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, finance, and business law. Some of Mr. Bernstein's representative transactions include:
- Leading a worldwide team of attorneys in providing counsel to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. in its $1.1 billion acquisition, through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, of Tower Automotive, Inc., a global manufacturer of vehicle components.
- Representing a domestic private company in the disposition of its joint venture interest in a Mexican manufacturer.
- Representing management in a buyout of a United States manufacturing division from its Taiwanese parent.
- Representing the family owners of Dynacept, LLC, a manufacturer of rapid prototypes, in the sale of their business to Midwest Plastics Components, Inc., an affiliate of Spell Capital Partners.
- Negotiating, on behalf of a client, a $1 billion credit line with a major money center bank intended to enable the client to avail itself of unique financial opportunities caused by the volatility in the worldwide debt markets.
- Counseling an activist hedge fund in a successful consent solicitation that resulted in the complete ouster of a public company's entrenched board of directors. The public company vigorously, but ultimately unsuccessfully, litigated against the consent solicitation.
Prior to his entry into the legal profession, Mr. Bernstein spent many years in the real estate development, finance and M&A industries where he led numerous acquisition, financing and disposition transactions, including transactions in the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Mr. Bernstein was a visiting lecturer of law at the University of Novi Sad, in the Republic of Serbia, as a part of the American Bar Association Balkan Law School Initiative funded by the United States Department of State.
Mr. Bernstein is a Certified Public Accountant.
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Rutgers University School of Law - Newark
(J.D., 2005),
with high honors, Order of the Coif; Managing Business Editor, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal
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Babson College
(B.S., 1985)
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New York
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New Jersey
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2008,
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
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2008,
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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2008,
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
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2006,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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2006,
U.S. Tax Court
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- Certified Public Accountant
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
- New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants
- American Bar Association
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