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William G. Frenkel attorney at New-York

William Frenkel

NEW-YORK

FRENKEL SUKHMAN LLP, New York, NY, United States

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For the last ten years, William Frenkel has focused his practice on serving the legal needs of the alternative investment funds industry, and has served as outside counsel to a number of major ($3 Billion +) hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and fund advisors.

William Frenkel also represents media, telecom, publishing, advertising, internet, e-commerce, software, technology, service, manufacturing, specialty food and luxury goods producers, financial service companies, consultancies, and other entities in a wide variety of corporate, commercial, and financial transactions.

In addition, William Frenkel has developed a special expertise in cross-border transactions, having counseled European companies on investing and doing business in the United States.

He has also represented foreign governments in international trade and investment treaty negotiations with the United States and has acted as privatization advisor to the U.S. government in the emerging market economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

William Frenkel has over 20 years of experience as a corporate and commercial lawyer with leading New York law firms, as in-house counsel for a U.S. multinational corporation, and as the principal of his own firm.

He has worked directly with chief executives on structuring, negotiating and implementing mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions.

He has advised a variety of corporate clients on formation and financing of new entities, handling various operational and contractual matters and ensuring regulatory compliance.

PRIOR LAW FIRM AFFILIATION

  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York et Moscou
  • LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, New York

EDUCATION

  • J.D, cum laude, New York Law School, 1988
  • Staff Editor, New York Law School Law Review
  • American Jurisprudence Awards (1987)
  • Student clerk to Hon. Sprizzo, U.S.D.J. (S.D.N.Y.)
  • B.A., magna cum laude, Bernard M. Baruch College, 1985

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE / PUBLICATIONS

  • Mr. Frenkel has taught law and international business as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, University College, and has acted as guest lecturer at the Columbia University School of Law. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on international private law, foreign investment, and privatization. He has contributed articles to International Financial Law Review, International Company and Commercial Law Review, and International Quarterly among others. He has also contributed chapters to such legal treatises as Laws of International Trade, Transnational Joint Ventures, The Law of Transnational Business Transactions, and Privatization in Eastern Europe.

LANGUAGES

  • Russian
  • French
  • German

COURT ADMISSIONS

  • New York State Bar
  • Southern District of New York Federal Bar

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • New York State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
  • Westchester County Bar Association American Immigration Lawyers Association

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