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Dennis J. Block

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Dennis J. Block

Partner
 
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
One World Financial Center
New York, New York  10281-0006
(New York Co.)

Telephone: (212) 504-6000
Fax: (212) 504-6666
http://www.cadwalader.com



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Practice AreasCorporate; Corporate Control Contests; Corporate Dissolutions; Corporate Fiduciary Law; Corporate Governance; Corporate Investigations; Hostile Takeovers; Proxy Contests; Tender Offers; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Business Acquisitions; Business Divestitures; International Merger Notification; International Mergers and Acquisitions; Leveraged Acquisitions; Leveraged Buyouts; Merger Reorganization; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mergers and Acquisitions Finance; Premerger Notification; Spin-Offs; Securities
 
EducationBrooklyn Law School, LL.B., 1967, State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., 1964
 
Admitted1968, New York
 
MembershipsAssociation of the Bar of The City of New York; American Bar Association (Member, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee and Committee on Counsel Responsibility, Business Law Section, 1980—; Co-Chairman, Committee on Corporate Counsel, 1982-1985, Division Director, 1985-1986 and Member of the Council, 1986-1989, Section of Litigation; Member of Committee on Corporate Laws, Business Law Section, 1993-1998); Federal Bar Council; American Law Institute.
 
BornBronx, New York
 
BiographyRecipient, Henrietta & Stuart Hirschman Foundation Scholarship. Adjunct Professor of Advanced Corporate Law, Brooklyn Law School, 1998—. Co-author: The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors and Officers, First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, Prentice Hall Law and Business, Inc., 1986, 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1998. Co-editor: "The Corporate Counsellor's Desk Book," First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions, Law and Business, Inc., 1982, 1985, 1990, 1992 and 1999. Monthly Column, "Mergers and Acquisitions," New York Law Journal, 1987—. Author of numerous articles on Business, Corporate and Securities Law. Chief Attorney, New York Regional Office of Securities and Exchange Commission, 1967-1972. Member, Board of Contributing Editors and Advisers of the Securities Regulation Law Journal, 1979— and Corporate Law Review, 1980—. Member, Editorial Board of Inside Litigation, 1986—; Insights, 1987—; Securities Regulation and Law Report, 1989—; Corporation, 1990—. Member, Task Force on Commercial Courts for State of New York, 1992-1993. Chairman, Lawyers Division, U.J.A. Federation, 1989-1991. Fellow, American Bar Foundation.
 
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