Walter Weinberg is a partner in the firm's Corporate Practice. He has over 20 years of experience representing start-ups, middle market and large cap companies, including many companies controlled or sponsored by private equity or venture capital groups, in their equity and debt financings, acquisitions, dispositions and other transactions as well as their day-to-day legal needs. Mr. Weinberg represents private equity and venture capital funds in structuring (and restructuring), negotiating and documenting their investments in, and exits from, portfolio companies, including their sponsorship of, or other participation in, leveraged and management buyouts. He has represented clients in the formation of private equity funds and real estate funds and represents institutional investors in connection with their investment in funds. He has represented numerous clients in mergers and acquisitions of privately and publicly held companies across a wide variety of industries, and has significant experience with publishing and information services companies, technology companies, insurance companies and REITs. Mr. Weinberg advises senior executives and management groups on employment and compensation arrangements and counsels boards of directors (and committees thereof) on their fiduciary and other duties and responsibilities.
Mr. Weinberg has been a speaker at programs of the American Bar Association’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Committee of the Business Law Section and seminars of the Chicago Bar Association regarding venture capital and securities law matters, and has lectured at the "Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship" class at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. He also has been a speaker at many other industry private equity and middle market seminars. Mr. Weinberg has been recognized by
Leading Lawyers Network of Illinois in the areas of Corporate Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities & Venture Finance Law, and Small, Closely & Privately Held Businesses; listed in
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005–2011);
Who's Who in American Law;
Who's Who Legal: Illinois 2006; The Best Lawyers in America; Illinois Super Lawyers (2007–2010); and
The Guide to the World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers.
Mr. Weinberg received his undergraduate degree with general honors in Economics from the University of Chicago, where he graduated
Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law, where he graduated
cum laude and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Weinberg also served as an editor of the
Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business.