Mergers & Acquisitions

Healthcare

John B. Watkins | Wiley Rein LLP

Editor: Please tell our readers about your background. Watkins: As a corporate and transactional lawyer, I have done M&A deals and financing transactions, including investments from pools of capital such as private equity firms, venture capital firms, hedge funds, family offices, and...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Ronald R. Papa, Jeffrey A. Horwitz | Proskauer

Editor: Please describe your M&A practices. On which industries do you focus? Papa: My practice is based on the representation of companies (rather than private equity sponsors), significantly weighted towards cross-border M&A, although not exclusively. In my practice, cross-border...

Antitrust & Competition

Paul B. Hewitt | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Please tell us about your background and experience. Hewitt: I developed an interest in antitrust in college as an economics major. After graduating from law school, I clerked for a year and then went to the Federal Trade Commission. I left the FTC in 1978 to go to Akin Gump, where I...