Richard Bernstein, a Partner in the Investment Management Group, provides counsel to leading national and international investment managers, pooled investment vehicles, and other large publicly traded and privately held businesses on matters related to mergers, acquisitions, complex investment transactions, corporate finance, significant strategic initiatives, derivatives, business law and compliance matters.

Prior to his entry into the legal profession, Richard spent 18 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, the Caribbean Basin, Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Some of Richard'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.

Richard 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. 

Richard is a Certified Public Accountant.