Kenneth A. Lefkowitz

Areas of Concentration

• Deputy Chair of Hughes Hubbard and Co-Chair of its Corporate Practice Group
• Member of firm’s highest governing body, the Executive Committee
• Corporate including representation of domestic and international corporations in negotiated mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; hostile takeovers, proxy fights and takeover defenses; going private transactions; joint ventures and other business combinations
• Capital markets practice including SEC related issues and debt and equity financing transactions (public and private)
• Boards of directors and their special committees in strategic situations
• Private Equity

Recognitions

• Ranked by Chambers USA 2004–2010 as one of the leading M&A lawyers in the United States.
• Named to the United States Lawyers Rankings 2007–2010 List of the Nation’s Top 10 Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers.
• Identified in the 2007–2011 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Mergers & Acquisitions Law.
• Recommended worldwide for Corporate Governance by PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008 and 2009.
• Ranked by Euromoney’s Guide as one of The World’s Leading M&A Lawyers 2008-2010.
• Named to the 2008 BTI Consulting Group’s Transactions All-Star Team for “delivering the absolute best client service possible.”
• Included as one of the world’s leading M&A Lawyers in 2006–2010 editions of The International Who’s Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers.
• Selected for the 2007–2010 issues of New York Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top lawyers in Manhattan.
• Selected as one of The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America–2007 & 2010 and as one of The Lawdragon 500 Dealmakers in America–2007.