Mr. Pearlman is the managing partner of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and has served in that position since August of 2000.

In addition to his responsibilities as managing partner, Mr. Pearlman's practice focuses on private equity transactions as well as the corporate aspects of the firm's corporate restructuring and bankruptcy practice.  Mr. Pearlman's private equity experience over the past 20 years has included representing LBO sponsors, management and providers of debt financing. Among his LBO transactions are the acquisitions of MicroWarehouse, The Ohio Mattress Company and Twin Laboratories.  Mr. Pearlman also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions involving public and privately held entities and in the financing of acquisition transactions.

Mr. Pearlman is also involved in the firm's Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy practice. He has represented creditors' committees, individual large creditors or other participants in a number of major bankruptcy cases, including Dow Corning, Northwest Airlines, SLM International, Inc., Marvel Entertainment, MobileMedia and Paging Network.

J.D., cum laude, St. John’s University School of Law, 1978

• Articles Editor, St. John's Law Review, 1977-1978  
  

B.B.A., George Washington University, 1975

New York, 1979

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