Bio

Peter Jonathan Halasz focuses his practice on mergers & acquisitions, securities, private equity, international business and investment funds. In private equity M&A, he represents clients in auctions and sales, restructurings and leveraged capitalizations, mergers, unsolicited tender offers, privatizations, international joint ventures, special-committee representations and venture capital investments. In finance, Peter represents issuers and underwriters in public offerings of equity and debt, commercial paper and euro medium-term note programs, Rule 144A offerings, and the organizations and offerings of alternative investment fund products. The United States Lawyer Rankings – 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 editions ranked Peter as one of the Top 10 lawyers in the nation in the area of International Trade and Finance. He received a B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College, and both an M.B.A. and a J.D., cum laude, from a dual-degree program at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.