David Edgar provides strategic corporate and transactional advice on a national and international basis. His practice focuses on advising public and private companies, boards of directors, special committees, and senior management in connection with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, activist planning and defense, and corporate governance matters.
David's transactional experience includes domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, “going private” transactions, LLCs and partnerships, corporate restructurings and recapitalizations, and venture capital and private equity financings, restructurings, and exits.
In his practice, David represents a broad range of clients, from privately held growth and technology companies to large public companies, as well as financial investors and investment banking firms in mergers and acquisitions transactions. His clients include companies in a diverse range of industries, including chemicals, emerging technology, financial services, software, metals, education, robotics, information technology, media, and life sciences.
David is a speaker, author, and workshop coordinator on a variety of corporate law topics, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, venture capital, and corporate governance. He is also a contributing author to the Lexis-Nexis Securities Practice Guide.
David is also a founding faculty member of the firm’s mini-MBA program, an innovative professional development training program designed to orient associates to key business concepts that are integral to our clients’ business success.
David is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions practice which has been recognized with numerous awards including being named the Corporate Law Firm of the Year in 2020 and ranked in National Tier 1 since 2010 in the US News Best Law Firms report. Furthermore, David was named a 2017 Acritas Star.
