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Areas of Practice
Experience
William Regner is a corporate partner and a member of Debevoise’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, including public company and cross-border transactions, and investment management, corporate and securities law matters. He also regularly represents investment banking firms in their roles as financial advisors in major transactions. Legal 500 US (2008) and IFLR1000 (2008) identify Mr. Regner as a leading lawyer for mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Regner is the co-author of Takeovers: A Strategic Guide to Mergers & Acquisitions (Aspen Law & Business 2004, Supplement 2008) and is a contributor to Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (Matthew Bender 2006). He has written numerous articles on mergers and acquisitions and corporate law matters, including “The ‘Downturn’ Roadmap: Parsing the Shift in Deal Terms,” Deal Lawyers (2007), “MBO Jumbo: What Directors Need to Know About Going Private,” Directors and Boards (2007), “Going Private in the US,” International Financial Law Review (2006), “What Buy-Side Directors Need to Know,” International Financial Law Review (2005), “Looking at Lock-ups: Orman & Omnicare” and “Balancing the Equities,” The M&A Lawyer (2004), “Combustion Hazard” and “Let’s Be Fair,” The Daily Deal (2004), “What’s Happening to the Business Judgment Rule?,” Insights (2003), “Delaware to Directors: Don’t Do Done Deals,” The M&A Lawyer (2003), “Hot Line,” “Booby Traps,” “Nerve Tonic” and “Putting it Together,” The Daily Deal (2003) and “Going Private the Pure Way in Delaware,” Insights (2002). He is also a contributing author of The Private Equity Primer: The Best of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report and the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report.
Mr. Regner joined Debevoise as an associate in 1994 and became a partner in 2002. Mr. Regner received his A.B. from Colgate University in 1988 and his J.D. summa cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1994, where he was Articles Editor of the Cardozo Law Review.
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Language(s)
English
Bar Admissions
New York
Education
Colgate University,
1988,
A.B.
Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law,
1994,
J.D.
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