Bio

Tobias Knapp is a skilled transactional lawyer and Head of O’Melveny’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practice for the United States. He advises on domestic and cross-border transactions and has extensive experience in corporate governance and general securities and corporate law. Tobias has counseled management teams and boards of directors of public companies in connection with public and private M&A, corporate governance, shareholder activism, joint ventures, minority investments and other strategic transactions. He regularly advises private equity clients and other asset managers on portfolio company acquisitions, growth equity, venture capital, and other fund and direct investments, and the formation of private investment funds. Described by clients in Chambers USA as “a very smart, flexible thinker,” he provides clients with responsive service and develops creative and pragmatic solutions for their most important matters. Prior to O’Melveny & Myers, Tobias was co-chair of the private equity practice and a member of the management committee at another major law firm. He is proficient in Russian and has extensive experience with cross-border transactions. Tobias has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of New York’s leading lawyers for corporate and mergers and acquisitions law, by The Legal 500 in the categories of middle-market and large M&A transactions (over $1 billion in size), and as a notable practitioner by the International Financial Law Review.