David W. Pollak

David served as leader of the firm’s business and finance practice for seven years, an elected member of the firm’s Compensation Committee for eight years, and an Advisory Board member for six years. For the last 18 years, he has chaired the Practising Law Institute’s seminar on “Acquiring or Selling the Privately Held Company,” presented annually in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. He teaches a third-year course in negotiating skills in the context of M&A and securities transactions as an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. The legal community often calls upon David to testify as an expert witness on M&A and securities law transactions.

• Spot On in connection with its acquisition by merger of Appetize Technologies for $415 million, financed in part through the issuance of $300 million of Series D-1 Preferred Stock
• Cambridge Global Payments in its sale, for approximately C$900 million, to Fleetcor
• Mercury Payment Systems in its sale, for approximately $750 million, to Silver Lake Partners
• Health Net, Inc. in its $6.8 billion cash and stock merger with Centene Corporation
• Nash Finch Company in its $1.3 billion merger with Spartan Stores Inc.
• Bold Penguin, Inc. in its $515 million sale to AmFam, Inc., a subsidiary of American Family
• Broadway Technology LLC in its sale to ION Investment Group for $560 million
• First Associates Loan Servicing, LLC in connection with its sale to Stone Point Capital LLC and merger with Portfolio Financial Servicing Company
• Teledata Communications Inc. (TCI) and its principal stockholders with the sale of 100% of the equity of TCI to MeridianLink Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $105 million
• TradingScreen, Inc. in its sale to Francisco Partners
• TransNational Payments in its sale for approximately $100 million to Celero Commerce
• SpotOn Transact, Inc. in its Series A through D Preferred Stock financings, with the latest valuation at $1.8 billion
• Cowen Group, Inc., as managing underwriter in connection with its underwriting of Trullium Therapeutics, Inc.
• SpartanNash in connection with its commercial contract arrangements and issuance of a Warrant to Amazon.com Inc.
• Cowen Group, Inc. as managing underwriter in the initial public offering of KemPharm, Inc.
• CrimsoNox Capital Private Limited in connection with its investment in Ingenuity Foods Inc.
• Electra Ltd. in its acquisition of Gilston Electrical, Hellman Electric, and F.W. Sims, Inc.
• Anterios, Inc. in its sale to Allergan
• Piper Jaffray, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of Tengion Inc.
• Cowen Group Inc., as managing underwriter, in the At the Market Offering of Amicus
• Portware in its sale for $265 million to FactSet
• BlackBerry in its acquisition of AtHoc, Inc.
• BlackBerry in its acquisition of WatchDox, Inc. 
• BlackBerry in its acquisition of Movirtu Limited
• Jefferies & Co. in its follow on offering for AcelRx
• JPMorgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of Paradigm Genetics, Inc.
• Cowen Group, Inc. as managing underwriter in the At the Market Offering of Trevena, Inc. and Stifel, as managing underwriter, in a follow-on offering
• Cowen Group, Inc. as managing underwriter in the At the Market Offering of Trillium
• Minerva Neurosciences Inc. in its initial public offering
• Piper Jaffray, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of AcelRx
• Conifer Securities in its sale to The Carlyle Group
• SpartanNash in its acquisition of Caito
• SpotOn Transact in its acquisition of EmaginePOS Inc.
• FastPay in its acquisition of AnchorOps
• Prudential Financial in its acquisition of the retirement business of Union Bank of California
• Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Susser Holdings, LLC, a Texas-based convenience store retailer, in a leveraged buyout
• Baldwin Technology Company, Inc. in its merger with Forsyth Capital Inc.
• Nash Finch Company in its asset acquisition of Bag 'N Save
• BlackBerry in its sale of its subsidiary, Newbay Software Limited
• SumUp Holding in equity issuances to American Express Company and Groupon Inc.
• Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of JW Aluminum Holdings to Superior Plus Inc.
• Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of IBIS Consulting, Inc.
• TradingScreen Inc. in connection with its recapitalization, with a substantial investment by Technology Crossover Ventures, including the refinancing of such investment
• Susser Holdings, Inc. in its issuance of $170 million of 10 5/8% Senior Notes
• The Hockey Company in its initial public offering of Common Stock in a cross-border transaction
• JP Morgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the issuance of common stock by Bioenvision
• Lazard Freres, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of common stock by HemoSense
• W.R. Hambrecht, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock by CryoCor
• Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Tube City LLC, a leading outsourcing services provider to the steel industry, in a leveraged buyout
• Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Edwin Watts Golf, the second largest golf equipment retailer in the United States, in a leveraged buyout
• Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of The Hockey Company to Reebok
• Cotelligent Inc., a leading information technology company, in connection with its follow-on offering of Common Stock
• Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of G3 Worldwide