Robert A. Profusek (Bob)
Partner
New York
Tel: 1.212.326.3800
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Email:
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Bob Profusek is an advisor to substantial businesses, focusing on M&A/takeovers, restructurings, and corporate governance matters, including compensation. He chairs the Firm's M&A practice. Representative M&A transactions include:
• Procter & Gamble in the reverse Morris Trust merger of its Folgers coffee business and The J.M. Smucker Company
• Nextel Communications in its merger-of-equals with Sprint and Sprint in its acquisition of Nextel Partners
• WL Ross & Co. in numerous transactions, including the acquisition and IPO of International Coal Group, the merger of International Steel Group and Mittal Steel, the acquisition of Oxford Automotive, and the automotive components' joint venture with Lear Corp.
• Ernst & Young in the merger of its consulting business with Cap Gemini S.A.
• Federated Department Stores in its unsolicited takeover of R.H. Macy & Co.
• General Motors in its U.S. automotive joint venture with Toyota
• Gillette in its celebrated takeover defenses
• Wasserstein & Co. in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of The American Lawyer, the New York Law Journal, New York Magazine, Primedia's business publications business, and Harry & David and
• The restructurings of Burlington Industries, Dow Corning, Federated Department Stores, Horizon Natural Resources, TWA, and U.S. Gypsum.
Other companies with which Bob has worked on substantial matters include ABM International, Aetna, American Lawyer, Blackstone Group, Bristol Hotels, CalEast, Collins & Aikman, Contrarian Capital, CTS, Diamond Shamrock, Disney, Dole Foods, Duchossois Industries, Forum Group, FranklinCovey, GenCorp, Global Industrial, Goldman Sachs, Goode Partners, Greyhound, Hampstead Group, M.A. Hanna, Harman International, Henley, Hewitt Associates, Hunt Petroleum, inChord, Interstate Hotels, Lazard, Louisiana-Pacific, Maybelline, Maxus Energy, Murray-Ohio, OMI, Omnicom, Oryx Energy, PepsiCo., Pneumo Abex, Procter & Gamble, RadioShack, Ryder System, Saunders Karp & Megrue, SkyTel, Special Metals, Trammell Crow, Transaction Systems Architects, TRW, UICI, U.S. Equity Partners, Washington Group, and White Consolidated Industries.
Bob is currently a member of the boards of directors of two NYSE-listed companies. The American Lawyer named him "M&A Dealmaker of the Year" in 2005. He also has been featured twice in The American Lawyer's monthly "Dealmaker" column and is included in Euromoney's Best M&A Lawyers in the World, Law Business Research Ltd.'s An International Who's Who of M&A Lawyers, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and The Best Lawyers in New York. He is also a frequent speaker regarding corporate takeovers and corporate governance, has authored or co-authored numerous articles, has testified before Congress and the SEC about takeover and compensation-related matters, and is a regular guest commentator on CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg TV.
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New York
Education
Cornell University (B.A. magna cum laude 1972); New York University (Note and Comment Editor, Law Review; Order of the Coif; J.D. summa cum laude 1975)