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Richard Bernstein

RETIRED PARTNER

Direct inquiries to bliberman@lowenstein.com
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We're pleased to announce the retirement of Richard Bernstein effective December 31, 2025. Any inquiries should be directed to the Chair of Lowenstein's Derivatives & Structured Products, Boris Liberman. 

Richard Bernstein advised leading U.S. and international investment managers; pooled investment vehicles; and other large, publicly traded and privately held businesses. He focused on matters related to mergers and acquisitions, complex investment transactions, corporate finance, significant strategic initiatives, derivatives, business law, and compliance.

Substantial experiential knowledge of global business informed Richard's legal work. Before becoming a lawyer, he pursued a successful career in the real estate development, finance, and mergers and acquisitions industries. Richard led numerous acquisitions, financings, and dispositions, including transactions in the U.S., the Caribbean Basin, Europe, and the former Soviet Union. He is also licensed as a certified public accountant.

In recognition of his exemplary legal experience in global finance and business, Richard was invited to serve as a visiting lecturer of law at the University of Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia, as part of the American Bar Association's Balkans Regional Rule of Law Network Program funded by the U.S. Department of State.

  • Led a worldwide team of lawyers in providing counsel to Cerberus Capital Management in its $1.1 billion acquisition, through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, of Tower Automotive Inc., a global manufacturer of vehicle components.
  • Represented a domestic private company in the disposition of its joint venture interest in a Mexican manufacturer.
  • Represented management in a buyout of a United States manufacturing division from its Taiwanese parent.
  • Represented 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.
  • Negotiated, on behalf of a client, a $1 billion credit line with a major money center bank intended to enable the client to leverage unique financial opportunities caused by the volatility in the worldwide debt markets.
  • Counseled 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.

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Education

  • Rutgers Law School (J.D. 2005), with high honors; Order of the Coif; Managing Business Editor, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal

    Babson College (B.S. 1985)

Affiliations

  • Certified Public Accountant
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants
  • American Bar Association
  • Member, New Jersey District Ethics Committee
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