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Malcolm E. Landau is a partner in the firm's Corporate department with a diverse U.S. and cross-border corporate practice. Mr. Landau has extensive transactional and corporate finance experience, principally in the fields of mergers & acquisitions (public and private, domestic and cross-border), divestitures, joint ventures, private equity investments, strategic investments, and capital markets transactions.

Mr. Landau regularly takes a lead role in:

• Structuring and managing complex transactions, negotiating and drafting agreements, and leading and coordinating deal teams;
• Counseling sophisticated clients, including boards of directors and senior management of major institutions; and
• Developing and implementing solutions to complex issues.

Representative Experience:

• Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. in its successful bid for the right to build FasTracks, Denver's proposed light rail project, which included setting up and negotiating, with Fluor Enterprises, Macquarie's technical partner in the bidding consortium, the agreements relating to the joint venture entity that made the bid. Counseled Macquarie regarding syndication of its interests in the JV
• Willis Capital Markets & Advisory, exclusive financial advisor to Bermuda-based reinsurer Harbor Point, in Harbor Point's $3 billion merger of equals with Bermuda-based reinsurer Max Capital Group, creating Alterra Capital Holdings Limited, a diversified global insurance company with greater scale, capital, and financial strength
• Harbinger Capital Partners Funds in the take-private of SkyTerra Communications, a mobile satellite services provider with an enterprise value of approximately $1.849 billion.
• Advent International Corporation in the $380 million cash tender offer acquisition of mall-based apparel retailer Charlotte Russe Holding, Inc.
• BHP Billiton on the sale of its Suriname subsidiary, N.V. BHP Billiton Maatschappij to Alcoa World Alumina LLC
• General Motors Corporation in its $19.7 billion term loan facility from the United States Department of the Treasury for operations and restructuring and in an additional $1 billion loan facility to finance General Motor's purchase of additional interests in General Motors Acceptance Corporation.
• Macquarie Bank in its acquisition of Express Energy Services; in its acquisition of Global Tower Management from Blackstone; in its acquisition of Icon Parking from the founding family and affiliates of Goldman Sachs; in its bid to acquire Central Parking Corp.; in its bid to acquire Sprint's nationwide portfolio of cell phone towers via a long-term leveraged head lease and lease-back; and in proposed concurrent sales of various portfolio companies to form the seed assets for an IPO on the London Stock Exchange
• Capital Z Partners, Lee Equity Partners and other private equity sponsors in a proposed "take private" transaction involving Universal American Financial Corp., and in the successful preferred equity investment to fund the acquisition of MemberHealth, Inc. from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
• Avaya in its "going private" sale to Silver Lake Partners and TPG Capital
• msystems in its merger with SanDisk
• IST Capital in its acquisition of AmQuip Crane Rental
• Trump Entertainment Resorts in the evaluation of acquisition proposals
• L'Oréal in its investment in Beauty Alliance LLC
• NBC Universal in the sale of an interest in the U.S. and international National Geographic Channel networks to Fox Broadcasting
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Huntsman Corp. in connection with evaluating strategic alternatives and responding to unsolicited buyout offers
• The Board of Directors of General Motors Corporation in the sale of 51% of GMAC to a Cerberus-led consortium, and review of other strategic alternatives
• Metavante in its acquisition of the NYCE ATM and EFT networks from First Data
• Management in the sale of BondsDirect Securities to Jefferies Group
• Leucadia in its acquisition of WilTel Communications via a registered exchange offer
• Galileo Technology in its merger with Marvell Technology Group
• Old Mutual PLC in its acquisition of United Asset Management via a tender offer
• United Rentals in its merger with US Rentals, and in its acquisitions of Equipment Supply Co., McClinch Group and Access Rentals
• General Dynamics in its bid for TRW
• Sponsors providing financing for the deployment of digital cinema systems for motion picture studios and movie theaters across North America
• Autostrade S.p.A. in its bid for a long-term concession to operate a major U.S. toll road
• International Specialty Products in the sales of its Pharmaceutical Chemicals, Filtration Products and Security Products divisions
• Financial advisors such as Goldman Sachs and Citigroup in connection with several major transactions, including: the acquisition of Mills by Simon Property; the merger of National Oilwell and Varco; the sale of Texas Genco to Blackstone; the merger of Petro-Canada and Prima Energy; the sale of Pampered Chef to Berkshire Hathaway; the sale of Pentair Power Tools to Black & Decker; and the sale of Knightsbridge to Hewlett-Packard
• Reuters in its FACTIVA joint venture with Dow Jones
• Wright Medical in its sale to Warburg Pincus
• General Electric in acquisitions of asset portfolios and the establishment of vendor financing programs
• Avaya in its IPO, its sale of preferred stock to Warburg Pincus, and a cash/stock election exchange offer for convertible notes
• United Rentals in its IPO and other capital markets transactions, including various offerings of senior, subordinated and convertible notes, and a debt consent solicitation and tender offer
• msystems in several underwritten equity and debt securities offerings
• Skyworks Solutions in a complex debt restructuring and refinancing

• Bar Admissions
  New York State

• Education
  Queens College NY (B.A., 1990); New York Univ Law (J.D., 1993)