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Jacob J. Frohman

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New York
Phone: (212) 808-7571
Fax: (212) 808-7897
Jacob Frohman is a partner in the firm's New York office. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, both public and private; private equity transactions, including leveraged buyouts; and securities matters.
Representative Experience
Represented leading enterprise software developer in its leveraged acquisition by San Francisco-based private equity firm for approximately $1.6 billion.

Represented leading New England-based CLEC in a series of strategic telecom acquisitions, including complex three-way merger, various financings and general corporate matters.

Represented prominent private equity fund in its sale of Snapple to a UK-based conglomerate for approximately $2 billion in cash and assumption of debt.

Advised Dutch industrial software developer in a debt-for-equity exchange offer and subsequent acquisition by a UK-based network software manufacturer via cross-border tender offer.

Represented leading Japanese copier maker in its $100 million tender offer for an Atlanta-based document management company.

Advised prominent defense contractor in several strategic acquisitions followed by initial public offering.

Represented leading venture/private equity fund in various Series A and B preferred stock investments in early-stage technology and telecommunications companies.

Represented leading distressed investment firm in the formation and closing of $600 million special situations fund focusing on distressed debt and the equity securities of companies going through reorganizations, recapitalizations or similar transactions.
Memberships & Associations
New York Bar Association
American Bar Association
Pro Bono
Represented tribal elders and non-profit advocacy groups of the Lakota Band of the Great Sioux Nation at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, S.D., in dispute regarding the mining of uranium and the pollution of local wells and aquifers by radioactive waste and arsenic.
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