Mr. Pearlman is the managing partner of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

His 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 or individual large creditors in a number of major bankruptcy cases, including the SLM International, Inc., Marvel Entertainment, MobileMedia and Paging Network bankruptcies. He also advised MicroWarehouse in connection with its sale following its recent bankruptcy filing.

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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