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.

• Represented Health Net, Inc. in its $6.8 billion cash and stock merger with Centene Corporation.
• Represented Cowen Group, Inc. as managing underwriter in the initial public offering of KemPharm, Inc.
• Represented 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.
• Represented Anterios, Inc. in its sale to Allergan.
• Represented Cowen Group Inc., as managing underwriter, in the At the Market Offering of Amicus.
• Represented Cowen Group, Inc. as managing underwriter in the At the Market Offering of Trillium.
• Represented Minerva Neurosciences Inc. in its initial public offering.
• Represented Piper Jaffray, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of Tengion Inc.
• Represented Piper Jaffray, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of AcelRx.
• Represented Jefferies & Co. in its follow on offering for AcelRx.
• Represented JPMorgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock of Paradigm Genetics, Inc.
• Represented Mercury Payment Systems in its sale, for approximately $750 million, to Silver Lake Partners.
• Represented Cambridge Global Payments in its sale, for approximately C$900 million, to Fleetcor.
• Represented Portware in its sale for $265 million to FactSet.
• Represented BlackBerry in its acquisition of AtHoc, Inc.
• Represented BlackBerry in its acquisition of WatchDox, Inc.
• Represented BlackBerry in its acquisition of Movirtu Limited.
• Represented Conifer Securities in its sale to The Carlyle Group.
• Represented Nash Finch Company in its $1.3 billion merger with Spartan Stores Inc.
• Represented FastPay in its acquisition of AnchorOps.
• Represented SpartanNash in its acquisition of Caito.
• Represented Prudential Financial in its acquisition of the retirement business of Union Bank of California.
• Represented Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Susser Holdings, LLC, a Texas-based convenience store retailer, in a leveraged buyout.
• Represented Baldwin Technology Company, Inc. in its sale to Forsyth Capital Inc.
• Represented Nash Finch Company in its asset acquisition of Bag 'N Save.
• Represented BlackBerry in its sale of its subsidiary, Newbay Software Limited.
• Represented OpHedge Inc. in its sale to Citco.
• Represented SumUp Holding in equity issuances to American Express Company and Groupon Inc.
• Represented Conifer Securities in its combination with Vestardis.
• Represented Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of JW Aluminum Holdings to Superior Plus Inc.
• Represented Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of IBIS Consulting, Inc.
• Represented TradingScreen Inc. in connection with its recapitalization, with a substantial investment by Technology Crossover Ventures.
• Represented Susser Holdings, Inc. in its issuance of $170 million of 10 5/8% Senior Notes.
• Represented The Hockey Company in its initial public offering of Common Stock in a cross-border transaction.
• Represented JP Morgan Chase, as managing underwriter, in the issuance of common stock by Bioenvision.
• Represented Lazard Freres, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of common stock by HemoSense.
• Represented W.R. Hambrecht, as managing underwriter, in the initial public offering of Common Stock by CryoCor.
• Represented Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its acquisition of Tube City LLC, a leading outsourcing services provider to the steel industry, in a leveraged buyout.
• Represented 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.
• Represented Wellspring Capital Management LLC in its sale of The Hockey Company to Reebok.
• Represented Cotelligent Inc., a leading information technology company, in connection with its follow-on offering of Common Stock.
• Represented Pitney Bowes, Inc. in its acquisition of G3 Worldwide.
• Represented Portware, LLC in its sale of securities to Longridge Equity Partners.