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Featured Advisory Board Member: Jeffrey A. Horwitz
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Jeffrey A. Horwitz |
Jeff Horwitz's global practice focuses on corporate and securities law, in which he has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and real estate finance.
Jeff counsels clients on a full range of activities, from raising seed capital to public offerings, acquisitions, and operational matters. He also handles tender offers, going-private transactions, restructuring, securitization, and structured finance transactions. Jeff represents major financial institutions such as Bear Stearns, CIBC World Markets, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, and Merrill Lynch, and represented Merrill's Global Private Equity group in connection with the $33 billion acquisition of HCA.
As co-head of Proskauer's nationally recognized Lodging & Gaming Practice Group, Jeff has handled virtually every type of matter involving the lodging and gaming industries, including casino and hotel development and construction, financing, management, marketing, reservations systems and ancillary services, acquisition and sale, and restructuring.
For more than a decade, Jeff represented Meridien Hotels and Resorts in all their U.S. activities. He also regularly represents Accor and Inter-Continental, and has worked on projects involving Armani, Caesar's / Harrah's, Cendant, Colony Capital, Club Med, Days Inns, Four Seasons, Garret Group, Hilton (and Doubletree), Marriott (and Ritz-Carlton), Raffles, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Swissotel, Wyndham, and many others, both in and outside the U.S.
His gaming experience covers both traditional casinos and projects on Indian tribal land. Current projects include the more than $2 billion redevelopment of Cable Beach in Nassau, The Bahamas; the development of a $600 million hotel/condo project in New York; the sale of a major economy lodging chain; and a significant acquisition of a diversified hospitality business in India. He is also outside general counsel to Hayground Cove, the hedge fund group managed by former Bear Stearns gaming, lodging, and leisure analyst Jason Ader.
As one of the leaders of our media and entertainment practice, Jeff represents, among others, The League of American Theatres and Producers Inc.; the Tony Awards; and industry-related joint ventures.
He also advises on the acquisition and sale of television, radio, newspaper and magazine properties, and the acquisition and sale of advertising, promotion and marketing agencies, and joint ventures. Jeff is a member of the New York City Bar Association, where he chairs the Committee on Hotels, Restaurants and Tourism, and the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Section of Business Law and the ABA Hospitality Committee.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly. He is a director of The New York Hospitality Council, Inc., a not-for-profit forum for hospitality industry leaders. He has been listed in 'The Best Lawyers in America', 'New York Super Lawyers', Lawdragon's '3000 Leading Lawyers in America' and '500 New Stars.'
Jeff graduated from Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was elected to The Order of the Coif.