Draft:Marshall Sonenshine

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Marshall Sonenshine is Chairman and Managing Partner of New York investment banking firm Sonenshine Partners.. Mr. Sonenshine was previously Partner in Wolfensohn & Company with former Salomon Brothers’ head of banking Jim Wolfensohn, US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Lord Jacob Rothschild. Mr. Sonenshine was part of the leadership team that merged Wolfensohn first into Bankers Trust, where he headed Media M&A and Aerospace/Transportation M&A, and later into Deutsche Bank, where Mr. Sonenshine was asked to serve as Co-Head of M&A. Prior to joining Wolfensohn, Mr. Sonenshine was a banker with Salomon Brothers in New York.

Mr. Sonenshine has served as Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University Business School and Professor of Advanced Corporate Transactions at Harvard Law School

Mr. Sonenshine holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He studied at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and, while at law school, he served as a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Harvard University’s Government Department and an Instructor in Legal Methods and in the International Program at the Law School. Following Harvard he became law clerk to Hon. Lawrence Pierce of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York.

Mr. Sonenshine counsels numerous leading companies and has advised on numerous leading transactions worldwide, including the Disney/ABC merger, the merger of International Lease Finance Corporation into America International Group, the global restructuring of GPA Group plc with General Electric, the restructuring of AEG, the global industrial group within Daimler Benz, the Sony/Columbia Pictures/Guber Peters Entertainment merger, the sale of the Structural Dynamics to EDS, the hostile defense of The United States Shoe Corporation, the merger of Chancellor Media and Capstar (and later Clear Channel), the sale of Simulia (ABAQUS) to Dassault Systèmes, the restructuring and recapitalization of KKR-backed New South Communications (later Nuvox), the restructuring of the Carlyle / Thiokol ownership of aerospace leader Howmet Corporation, the representation of Alcoa in several global divestitures, the restructuring and sale of Riverstone Networks to Alcatel, the restructuring and sale of the Philadelphia Newspapers, the representation of major publicly traded Chinese manufacturers Nine Dragons and Sirio Pharma in their respective first North American acquisitions.

Mr. Sonenshine has served as Executive Producer of three HBO political and legal documentaries of which one (The Loving Story) won an Emmy and a Peabody, and two were Emmy nominees. He also served as Co-Founder and Chairman of RosettaBooks, leader in digital rights management and eBooks for top tier authors. His civic and charitable affiliations include serving as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the Endowment for Hunter College (CUNY), Trustee and Chairman of Development for the boards of The International Center of Photography and Jazz at Lincoln Center, Chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund, member of the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the board of ArtsConnection, and Co-Chairman of the Harvard and Mass General Center on Law, Brain and Behavior.