Neil C. Rifkind

Neil C. Rifkind is a special counsel in the New York office, where his practice focuses on private equity transactions, public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, special committee representations, debt and equity tender offers, securities offerings, and general corporate representations.

Selected Representations

Morton’s Restaurant Group Inc. in its sale to affiliates of Tilman J. Fertitta.

Cerberus ABP Investor LLC as backstop purchaser in a rights offering by BlueLinx Holdings Inc.

Pretium Packaging L.L.C. and Pretium Finance, Inc. as issuers in a private placement of notes.

Cerberus Capital Management in its sale of Chrysler Financial to TD Bank Group.

Castle Harlan in the sale of Associated Packaging Technologies, Inc. to Sonoco Products Co. 

The special committee of Deerfield Capital Corp. in the acquisition of Columbus Nova Credit Investment Management, LLC and related sale of convertible subordinated notes to Bounty Investments, LLC, an investment vehicle managed by Renova U.S. Management LLC.

Castle Harlan Partners V, L.P. in its acquisition of Pretium Packaging L.L.C. and Pretium’s contemporaneous acquisition of Novapak Corporation.

DynCorp International in the acquisition of Casals & Associates, Inc.

The acquisition of First Republic Bank from Bank of America Corp. (as counsel to a member of the investor consortium).

Chrysler LLC in the sale of its assets to Fiat.

Veritas Capital's acquisition of Global Tel*Link.

Talecris Holdings, LLC as selling stockholder in the initial public offering of Talecris Biotherapeutics Holdings Corp.

Endicott Financial Advisors, LLC as financial advisor in the merger of Pamrapo Bancorp, Inc. and BCB Bancorp, Inc.

Endicott Financial Advisors, LLC as financial advisor in the merger of Danvers Bancorp, Inc. and Beverly National Corporation.

NewPage Corporation and NewPage Holding Corporation in several issuances of notes and related Exxon Capital exchange offers.

Veritas Capital in the acquisition of Aeroflex Incorporated.

Tullett Prebon in the acquisition of the corporate broker and derivatives businesses of Chapdelaine Securities.

A CDO manager in a 144A equity private placement of a managed partnership formed to acquire CDOs.

A sponsor in the formation of a credit derivative products company and related private placement of notes.

Pouschine Cook Capital in the recapitalization of Crownline Boats.

Selected Publications

Bar Admissions

• New York

Court Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

Prior Experience

Harbinger Capital Partners, secondment, April-June 2009
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Principal Investment Area, secondment, October 2002-
    May 2003
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen, October 1998-February 2006