Martin W. Zivitz is a partner in the Indianapolis, Indiana office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP. He is a member of the firm's Corporate Department and Entrepreneurial Services Practice Group and formerly served on the firm's Recruiting Committee. His practice includes business and corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions of businesses, entrepreneurial services, acquisitions and dispositions of mortgage pools and servicing rights in secondary markets, venture capital and private equity investments and a wide variety of other complex transactions.
Mr. Zivitz received his B.A. from Indiana University in 1997 where he earned his degree in psychology, with an outside concentration in political science. He was a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society and the Sigma Alpha Mu social fraternity. Mr. Zivitz received his J.D. cum laude from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 2000, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg, he served as vice president and general counsel for a local medical management company.
Mr. Zivitz was accepted for inclusion in the 2009/2010 edition of Strathmore's Who's Who Registry & Global Network for Outstanding Professionals, was selected for inclusion into the 2006/2007 Metropolitan Who's Who in Law "Honors Edition" international registry, and was selected to represent Carmel, Indiana in the 2008/2009 Cambridge Who's Who Registry Among Executives and Professionals. He was also selected for inclusion as an "Indiana Rising Star" in the 2009-2012 editions of Indiana Super Lawyers® for his work in Mergers & Acquisitions, one of only four attorneys to receive such recognition in the state of Indiana for mergers and acquisitions in 2010. The selection process for Rising Stars is the same as the Super Lawyers selection process, except that to be eligible for inclusion in Rising Stars a candidate must be either 40 years old or younger or in practice for 10 years or less and, while up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are named to the Rising Stars list.
Mr. Zivitz has delivered seminars on a variety of transactional and corporate matters, including a recent presentation at the National Business Institute's 2011 seminar, "Mergers & Acquisitions: Nuts and Bolts" and at the National Business Institute's 2007 seminar, "Limited Liability Companies - Use LLCs as a Framework for Success." He currently serves an advisory board member for the Indianapolis chapter of The Entrepreneurship Institute, a national non-profit company providing strategic and practical solutions for corporate leaders, and is an active member of the Indiana Chapter of the The Association for Corporate Growth®(ACG), the global community for middle market M&A dealmakers and business leaders focused on driving growth. He has previously served as co-chair of the CFO Roundtable, a group composed of chief financial officers and other financial professionals from Indianapolis and the surrounding areas, as well as the the board of directors of the Visiting Nurse Service Foundation, Inc. He also participated in the United Way of Central Indiana's 2004-2005 Ardath Burkhart Series, learning how to be part of positive changes in the community through community leadership and service on nonprofit boards.
Mr. Zivitz is a member of the American, Indiana State, and Indianapolis Bar Associations and is an active member of the Young Professionals of Central Indiana. He is admitted to practice before the state and federal courts in Indiana.
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