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Seth T. Goldsamt is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP in the Firm’s New York Office. As a member of the Corporate Department, he concentrates his practice in the fields of private equity, including leveraged buyouts, and mergers and acquisitions.
Seth has served as lead counsel in a wide variety of U.S. and international corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity co-investments, equity bridges, venture capital investments, securities offerings, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and restructuring transactions.
Seth has extensive experience in private placements of equity and debt securities (including PIPE transactions), representing both issuers and investors in a number of industries, including energy, technology, telecommunications, transportation, pharmaceuticals and health care.
In addition to handling transactional work, he advises clients on general corporate matters and various aspects of corporate governance, as well as on compliance with the federal securities laws.
Representative Transactions:
Represent Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated with respect to its equity commitment in connection with the proposed $45 billion leveraged buy out acquisition of TXU Corp., the Texas energy company. The transaction represents one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history.
Represented Morgan Stanley Principal Investments, Inc., as an equity investor in Mitel Networks Corporation, a leading provider of unified communications solutions and services for business customers, in connection with Mitel’s $723 million acquisition of Inter-Tel (Delaware) Incorporated, a full-service provider of business communications solutions.
Represented private investment fund in connection with its investment in debt and equity of a company engaged in the business of developing, owning and operating multi-product biorefineries using proprietary technologies to produce ethanol and specialty chemicals from traditional feedstocks and waste biomass.
Represented one of the largest supermarket companies in the world in connection with its $2.5 billion acquisition of a supermarket chain in the United States.
Represented U.S. private investment firms in connection with formation of Virgin America, a Virgin-branded, start-up low cost airline.
Represented a leading NYSE-listed dermatological pharmaceutical company in connection with the acquisition of rights to certain products.
Represented private investment fund in multiple equity investments in a pulp mill operator in Western Canada.
Represented Tsumura International in connection with sale of U.S. bath and home products business to Belae Brands.
Represented Mojo Records in connection with sale of music catalog to Zomba Recording Corporation.
Represented private investment firm in connection with a $93 million PIPEs investment in a telecommunications company.
Regularly represent private investment fund in connection with PIPE investments.
Regularly represent private investment firm in connection with equity and debt investments in various LBO transactions, including the acquisition and disposition of Eight O’Clock Coffee Company.
Regularly represent private equity investment firm in connection with its investments in a Dutch provider of colocation services in Europe.
Represented bondholders’ committee in connection with $510 million bond restructuring of Grupo TMM, a Mexican transportation and logistics company.
While at Columbia University School of Law, Seth was Head Research & Writing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems.
Seth is admitted to practice in New York.
Education:
Columbia Law School, J.D. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 1995
Columbia College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1991 | 