Practices
- CORPORATE
- Apparel, Fashion and Textile
- Art and Museum Law
- Bankruptcy-Related Counseling and Support in Commercial and Business Transactions
- Charities and Tax-Exempt Organizations
- Energy and Natural Resources
- General Business Law (including choice of entity)
- Licensing
- Life Sciences
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Private Equity Investments
- Partnerships and Joint Ventures: Real Estate
- Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Tax
- Private Investment Funds
- Regulatory and Corporate Compliance Investigations
- Restaurant, Food and Beverage
- Securities and Corporate Finance
- Technology
- BANKING AND FINANCE
- CHINA PRACTICE
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Education
- J.D., Stanford University Law School, 1972
- B.A., Northwestern University, 1969 (Honors)
Bar Admissions
- New York (1975)
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1976)
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1975)
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Selig D. Sacks
Partnerssacks@pryorcashman.com
New York, NY 10036-6569
Selig D. Sacks has been a partner at Pryor Cashman since 1981, and has served on its Executive Committee (1999-2007). His practice primarily involves counseling private and publicly-traded corporations, and private equity and venture capital funds and their portfolio companies in all aspects of transactional, securities law and general corporate matters. Mr. Sacks represents issuers in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities and has experience in both buyer and seller-side merger and acquisition and leverage buyout transactions and in both issuer and investor-side venture capital and other private financing transactions.
In addition, Mr. Sacks advises private and publicly-traded corporations and their executive officers and directors on corporate governance and SEC compliance and disclosure matters, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and fiduciary duties of directors and officers. His private equity clients include Electra Investment Trust PLC, a closed end investment trust traded on the London Stock Exchange, and Bahrain International Bank E.C. For these and other institutional investors, Mr. Sacks advises and represents them in their senior, mezzanine and equity investments. Mr. Sacks also has served as general outside counsel to the U.S. public subsidiary of one of the largest asset based companies in Canada specializing in financial services and real estate.
Mr. Sacks’s management responsibilities at Pryor Cashman include serving in a lead capacity on the Lateral Acquisitions, Marketing and Investment Committees of the firm. He is also Co-Head of the firm's China Group.
Selig is a 1972 graduate of Stanford Law School, where he was Articles Editor and Executive Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Studies from 1971-72.
Publications
- Co-Author with UBS (formerly Paine Weber), Resource Recovery Procurement and Financing, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 1980
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
Other Activities
- Stanford Law School Board of Visitors
- Northwestern University Leadership Council
- The American Folk Art Museum, Trustee, member of Executive Committee and Chair of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Block Museum of Art, Board of Advisors
- Sequitur, Inc., Board Member
- American Friends of Herzog Hospital, Board Member
- American Pardes Foundation, Inc., Board Member and former President
- Ballet Hispanico, former Board Member
