| Biography:
Arnie Jacobs has a broad background in general corporate and securities law
with an emphasis on private and public offerings, mergers and acquisitions,
and corporate governance. He twice was a member of Proskauer's six-person Executive
Committee, which governs the Firm. As a result of his most recent election to the Executive
Committee, he gave up his position as Co-Chair of the Firm's Corporate Department.
He has been listed for many years in The Best Lawyers in America, New York's Top Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in American Law. He was called "one of the deans of securities law" by Crain's New York Business. He was one of eight New York mergers and acquisitions/securities lawyers profiled in the July 2004 Corporate Counsel. He also was nationally ranked in Chambers USA 2008, and cited in 2008 as one of the best 148 lawyers in the United States in client service by BTI Consulting Group, the premier rating agency for client satisfaction.
His practice includes representing diverse private equity funds and public companies and working on public offerings, private placements, venture capital and private equity investments, and mergers and acquisitions.
Arnie graduated with distinction from Cornell Law School where he was Managing Editor of the Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He also received an M.B.A. from Cornell's Graduate Business School. He earned a B.M.E. in mechanical engineering as an undergraduate at Cornell.
Arnie has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School and
as a Lecturer at Cornell Law School. He acted as Chairman of the Committee on
Securities Regulation of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
from 1982 through 1986. Arnie has testified on securities legislation before
committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Arnie is the author of 24 books and numerous articles on various aspects of
securities and corporate law. They have been cited by the Supreme Court of the
United States a number of times, as well as in hundreds of other cases and authorities.
As a result of one of those articles, he holds the world's record for the law
review article with the most footnotes (4,824 footnotes, to be exact).
His books are:
- Disclosure and Remedies Under the Securities Laws, a six-volume, 5,000-page treatise discussing what disclosure is required under federal and state securities laws, and the remedies for noncompliance.
- Litigation and Practice Under Rule 10b-5, a six-volume, 5,000-page treatise dealing with securities fraud.
- Section 16(b) of The Securities Exchange Act, a 1,000-page treatise dealing with short-swing profits.
- Manual of Corporate Forms for Securities Practice, a four-volume, 2,000-page treatise setting forth forms to be used.
- Opinion Letters in Securities Matters, a three-volume, 2,000-page treatise dealing in depth with opinions lawyers are to render.
- The Impact of Rule 10b-5, a three-volume, 1,500-page treatise explaining various aspects of securities fraud.
- The Williams Act - Tender Offer and Stock Accumulations, a 900-page treatise on takeovers and Schedule 13Ds.
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