Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007 & 2008)
Listed, USA Legal 500, Corporate (2006–2008)
Bar Admissions
- New York
- Connecticut
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.7092
Fax: 212.309.6001
R. Alec Dawson is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. His practice focuses on U.S. and cross-border transactional matters, including structuring and negotiating M&A and joint venture transactions for strategic and financial acquirers. He provides advice to public companies in the U.S. involved in various transactional matters, including counseling boards and special committees in connection with interested party transactions. Mr. Dawson is a member of the firm's Private Equity Practice as well as the Financial Services M&A Group, with a focus on representing broker dealers involved in M&A transactions, including in their capacity as financial advisors, and hedge funds in connection with various investment decisions.
Previously, he worked as an account supervisor in the New York office of TBWA Chiat/Day and also served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie.
Mr. Dawson is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut.
Selected Representations
Mr. Dawson’s recent significant representations include:
- Jefferies in its sale of $500 million of stock to Leucadia.
- Quintana Maritime in its $2.5 billion sale to Excel Maritime.
- Smart and Final in its acquisition of the Henry's and Sun Harvest Stores from Whole Foods.
- The management team of TXU in connection with the leveraged buyout of TXU.
- Apollo Management in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Claire’s Stores.
- Sierra Health Services in its $2.5 billion sale to United Health.
- Apollo Management in its $800 million acquisition of Smart and Final.
- Apollo Management in its $1.6 billion sale of portfolio company General Nutrition Centers.
- Morgan Stanley in its acquisition of a significant minority interest in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and in the Exchange's subsequent sale to the NASDAQ.
- A consortium including Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS in the formation of BIDS Trading and subsequent investment rounds, as well as BIDS' recently announced joint venture with the NYSE.
- Various financial institutions in connection with their role as financial advisors in approximately 30 M&A transactions in the preceding 12 months.
- Various hedge funds in connection with potential investments/merger arbitrage transactions involving numerous transactions over the last 12 months.
Education
- George Washington University National Law Center, 1994, J.D., Summa Cum Laude
- Williams College, 1987, B.A., Cum Laude