Paul Hastings Continues to Strengthen Premier M&A Platform

NEW YORK – Continuing to strengthen its global M&A platform, Paul Hastings LLP announced today that premier public M&A and corporate governance lawyer Timothy Fesenmyer has joined the firm as a partner in New York. 

Fesenmyer joins from King & Spalding LLP after spending nearly two decades at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He reunites on the Paul Hastings platform with the top-ranked 11-partner, 20-lawyer team of restructuring, private credit, and special situations lawyers that joined the firm from King & Spalding in June.

Fesenmyer focuses on high-profile domestic and cross-border M&A work, advising companies, boards of directors, board committees, legal teams, and executive management on complex transactions and in matters involving corporate governance, compliance, and other strategic and business-related matters. Additionally, Fesenmyer has robust experience in restructuring and special situations, including Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, and distressed acquisitions.

Recent top-tier partner additions to Paul Hastings’ M&A and shareholder activism platform have propelled the firm to #2 in FactSet’s Company Defense Top Law Firms league tables through the first half of 2024. Paul Hastings was recently added to a small and elite group of Chambers-ranked firms for Corporate/M&A: Takeover Defense that includes Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Skadden, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

“As we continue to deepen our strategic M&A, corporate takeover defense, and private equity platforms, Tim’s broad experience—especially across public and distressed M&A, together with his exceptional corporate governance advisory work—further enhances our ability to serve clients around the world in all of their M&A transactions, and will also be a valuable resource for our special situations clients,” said firm Chair Frank Lopez.

With clients that have included Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc., Citigroup, Red Lobster, Tumi Holdings, Inc., and Xerox, Fesenmyer works across diverse sectors, including media and entertainment, financial services, consumer products, technology, and telecommunications. His corporate advisory work ranges from public company sales, carveouts, spin-offs, private mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures to out-of-court restructurings and reorganizations.

“I look forward to helping clients strategically navigate the current deal landscape from the robust global M&A platform that Paul Hastings has built while contributing to the firm’s ongoing efforts to capture more market share,” said Fesenmyer. “I’m also excited to join an ambitious culture driven by a focus on collaboration of exceptional lawyers and practices across the firm.”

Fesenmyer arrives at Paul Hastings on the heels of nearly 20 other notable strategic M&A and private equity partner hires since the beginning of 2023, including:

• Technology M&A and emerging growth lawyer Ian Engstrand, who joined the firm last week in Boston, and M&A and shareholder activism lawyer Andrew Goodman, who joined in August and works across Boston and New York;
• The seven-lawyer private equity buyout team led by partners Alex Temel and Bill Schwab that established the firm’s Boston office in April;
• Elite private equity and M&A teams from Goodwin Procter LLP, including global co-chair of private equity Scott Joachim, vice chair of private equity Josh Ratner, and preeminent technology transactional lawyer Ryan LaForce, along with a dozen additional lawyers;
• A three-partner, seven-lawyer Chambers-ranked corporate team led by David Elder, Chris Centrich, and Patrick Hurley in Houston;
• M&A partner Jon Kubek in New York;
• An insurance M&A team comprising partners Kirk Lipsey, Chad Vance, and Sanjiv Tata, along with Brad Drake, in New York and Chicago;
• Private equity and infrastructure M&A partner Frederik Mühl, and leading corporate and M&A partner Nikolaos Paschos in Frankfurt; and
• Top-ranked infrastructure M&A partner Jessamy Gallagher in London.

 

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