Kenneth Henderson’s corporate and securities transactional experience is focused on mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings and domestic and international joint ventures.

In addition to his substantial transactional practice, Mr. Henderson provides day-to-day corporate, securities, governance and business law advice to publicly held and privately owned business clients in the United States and abroad in a variety of industries, including fund managers and family office structures and companies in the financial services, technology and services industries.

Mr. Henderson is active in community and pro bono matters. He was responsible for organizing the firm’s mentor relationship with Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York, Brooklyn. He is past chairman of and counsel to the Board of Directors of PCI-Media Impact, a New York-based non-profit corporation with activities in developing countries throughout the world.

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Representative transactions handled by Mr. Henderson recently include:

• Acquisition and recapitalization of Swiss asset management firm
• Acquisition of Sunwell Services, Rogue Pressure Services and Eagle Well Services by Steel Excel, Inc.
• NICE-Systems Ltd. acquisition of Actimize Ltd. (US counsel)
• NICE-Systems Ltd. acquisition of e-Glue Software Technologies, Inc. (US counsel)
• Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc. organization and funding of first round of private equity capital and control investment in VantageSouth Bank
• Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc. acquisition of The Community Bank of Rowan
• Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc. in acquisition of control of Crescent Financial Bancshares Inc.
• James River Group, Inc. sale to Franklin Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. in $573,000,000 transaction
• Acquisition of minority investment in natural gas pipeline in Middle East
• Series of acquisitions and financing transactions for various domestic and non-US based private investment groups, including acquisitions of companies in software, technology, energy, fund of fund and real estate businesses and organization and structuring of fund and asset management vehicles
  

Bar and Court Admissions

New York, 1980

United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Education

New York University, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1979

Auburn University, B.A., with high honors, Phi Kappa Phi, 1976

Speeches and Seminars

• Alliance Bernstein "Selling a Business" Seminar, May 2011
• PLI Institutional Investor Summit, January 2009, January 2010 and March 2011
• National Association of Corporate Directors, New Jersey Chapter, Governance Seminar, March 2010
• ACG Atlanta Conference - M&A Panel, February 2009

Professional Affiliations

• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• New York State Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Civic Involvement and Honors

• New York Super Lawyers, 2007 - 2012

• Root Tilden Scholar
• Annual Survey of American Law, New York University Law School – Articles Editor, 1978-1979
• Benjamin J. Butler Prize
• PCI - Media Impact, Inc. – Director, 1994-2003
• Small Business Majority Foundation, Inc. – Board of Directors, 2005-present
• The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church – Trustee