Barry A. Adelman
Barry A. Adelman represents and counsels domestic and international clients in a broad range of activities, including mergers and acquisitions, issuance of equity and debt securities (both public and private placements), secured loan transactions, formation and structuring of domestic and international corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint ventures, project financings, agreements for the acquisition, construction, and maintenance of communications systems, including vendor financing of such systems, and other commercial transactions. He also represents and advises individuals and families in connection with employment matters, business and financial transactions, and personal matters.
Mr. Adelman has been involved in the wireless telecommunications industry since its inception in the early 1980s and was lead counsel in the formation of the joint ventures which obtained licenses for in excess of sixty of the top ninety cellular markets. He has represented clients in several separate multibillion-dollar transactions (including representation of a client in its acquisition by a major European telecommunications company, a transaction valued at $50.7 billion at the time it was announced), and clients in the issuance of several billion dollars of high-yield debt securities. In addition, he has represented international clients in the formation, infrastructure acquisition, and project financing of telecommunications ventures in Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central and South America.
Mr. Adelman has been selected for inclusion by Law & Politics in Super Lawyers® 2011 New York Edition for having attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the multiphase Super Lawyers selection process which includes, among other factors, peer evaluation. Mr. Adelman also received this designation in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
Mr. Adelman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1969. Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman, he was a partner for more than twenty years at Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman in New York. Mr. Adelman is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and has taught a seminar titled "Anatomy of a Deal" for the past six years. He is a member of the New York City Bar.
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