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About the Authors
Diane Holt Frankle
Diane Holt Frankle is a partner in the Silicon Valley, California office of DLA Piper and
Co-Chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Ms. Frankle specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and anti-takeover counseling. She has represented numerous companies, both buyers and sellers, in asset deals, stock and cash mergers, tender offers, management buyouts and other complex acquisitions, and in implementing defensive strategies. Ms. Frankle is a member of the American Bar Association's Committee on Negotiated Acquisitions and Co-Chairs the Committee's Task Force on Public Company Acquisitions. She speaks and writes regularly in programs for both clients and practicing lawyers on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the fiduciary duties of directors, and federal and state securities laws. She is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Chambers Global Guide and as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers, for her mergers and acquisitions practice. Ms. Frankle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1979. After law school, she served as law clerk to Senior District Judge R. Dorsey Watkins, Senior District Judge of the United State District Court for the District of Maryland from 1979 to 1981.
Stephen A. Landsman
Stephen A. Landsman is a partner in the Chicago office of DLA Piper and is Co-Chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He engages in a general corporate, business counseling, and tax practice, with special emphasis in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Landsman has extensive in-depth experience in numerous industries as lead counsel representing both purchasers and sellers in a wide variety of transactions including public to public, private to public, private to private, leveraged recapitalization, divisional or asset sales and joint venture/strategic alliance transactions. Mr. Landsman has been a speaker on various corporate law matters and has been the author of several published articles in his field. In 2007 the respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites Mr. Landsman in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer in both 2005 and 2006 and is also listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.
Jeffrey J. Greene
Jeffrey J. Greene is a partner in the Shanghai office of DLA Piper. He concentrates his practice in the areas of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate and securities law. Mr.Greene regularly advises clients in a wide variety of mergers, acquisitions and change of control transactions, and has led cross-border M&A deals in Australia, China, Finland, Germany,
India, South Korea and the United Kingdom, among others. Mr. Greene frequently presents to practicing attorneys on the areas of mergers and acquisitions. Before relocating to the firm's Shanghai office, Mr. Greene practiced in the firm's Seattle, Washington office where he was named a “Rising Star” by Washington Law and Politics magazine from 2001 to 2006.
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