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Dennis Black is a firm founder and principal in the firm's Corporate, Securities & Tax Group. His practice consists of serving as a senior counselor and advisor to business owners and boards of directors, as well as handling personally all aspects of acquisitions and sales, and corporate finance transactions from initial structuring through negotiations, critical documentation and supervision of closings. He represents large institutional clients, entrepreneurial businesses, middle market companies and cooperatives in a wide variety of matters, including mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, strategic alliances, internal reviews, executive compensation and ownership succession matters, crisis management, and other sensitive matters through every stage of the life of a business. His practice includes extensive work with limited liability companies, partnerships and other non-corporate business entities.
Mr. Black has represented financial and strategic buyers, management groups, investment groups, individual and corporate owners, and family groups. Structures of sales include stock sales, asset sales, mergers, spin-offs, leveraged recapitalizations, partnership redemptions and joint ventures. Transaction sizes have ranged from over $250 million to relatively small transactions. Businesses that Mr. Black has represented include manufacturers, contractors, cooperatives, service companies, professional firms and financial institutions. He brings a multidisciplinary approach to such transactions, including years of experience dealing with corporate, tax, securities, accounting, regulatory and other aspects of a transaction in order to provide an integrated service to clients, whether working with other professionals employed or selected by the client or drawing on Goldberg Kohn's internal resources.
Mr. Black serves as an independent director of Bank of America Financial Products Inc. He served until 2005 as a director of Meritas (formerly Commercial Law Affiliates) an affiliation of nearly 5,000 attorneys in 180 U.S. cities, in every major province of Canada and over 60 other countries of which Goldberg Kohn is the exclusive Chicago member. Mr. Black was recently presented with an outstanding service award at the 2005 Meritas Annual Meeting. Mr. Black is the incoming president of the Standard Club in Chicago. Mr. Black has also been a director of numerous other charitable, civic and professional organizations. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Council of Lawyers.
Mr. Black was an editor of the Harvard Law Review from 1966 to 1968. He was also elected Phi Beta Kappa while attending Cornell University. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Walter J. Cummings, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, from 1968 to 1969. He has been a frequent speaker and author on a variety of corporate and related legal matters. | 