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r. Lebovitch is primarily responsible for the firm's corporate transaction litigation practice.  Currently, he is prosecuting breach of fiduciary duty claims on behalf of public pension systems in the Yahoo!, Inc. Takeover Litigation, the Dollar General Shareholders Litigation, and the Longs Drug Stores Corp. Shareholders Litigation.  Previously, he helped to obtain for shareholders billions of dollars in additional consideration and significant corporate governance improvements by prosecuting breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from, among other things, the hostile takeover battles over Caremark Rx, Inc., CBOT Holdings, Inc. and Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., the private equity buyout of Ceridian Corporation, the acquisition of Commerce Bancorp., and the going private proposal for Cablevision Systems Corporation.

Mr. Lebovitch is also a member of the firm's subprime litigation team, which focuses on vindicating shareholder and consumer rights arising from the mortgage and credit crisis.  He is also a member of the teams prosecuting In re MBIA, Inc. Securities Litigation and In re Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Securities Litigation.

Following law school, Mr. Lebovitch clerked for Vice Chancellor Stephen P. Lamb on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, one of the nation's premier courts deciding hostile takeover and corporate transaction-based litigation and claims relating to the valuation of corporate securities.  Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lebovitch was a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York, where he represented clients in a variety of corporate governance, commercial and federal securities matters, including several which went to trial.

Mr. Lebovitch's publications include "'Novel Issues' or a Return to Core Principles? Analyzing the Common Link Between the Delaware Chancery Court's Recent Rulings in Option Backdating and Transactional Cases" (NYU Journal of Law & Business, Volume 4, Number 2); "Calling a Duck a Duck: Determining the Validity of Deal Protection Provisions in Merger of Equals Transactions" (2001 Columbia Business Law Review 1) and "Practical Refinement" (The Daily Deal, January 2002), each of which discussed evolving developments in the law of directors' fiduciary duties.  Mr. Lebovitch speaks regularly on a wide range of corporate governance and securities related issues, including at a conference sponsored by RiskMetrics Group entitled "Subprime Litigation and Liability: What You Need to Know for 2008," a PLI panel entitled, "What All Business Lawyers Must Know About Delaware Law Developments 2008," and an ALI-ABA Panel entitled "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis from A to Z."