About Walter S. Weinberg

For more than 40 years, Walter Weinberg has represented private equity funds and public and private company clients as well as entrepreneurs, private equity professionals and other senior executives in a wide range of matters. His experience includes advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, startups, corporate governance, investments, and employment and compensation matters. A former Partner and Chair of the Chicago Corporate Department, and now Senior Counsel, Walter currently is the knowledge management and professional development attorney for the national Corporate Department. Walter's many years of experience enable him to curate useful forms and precedents and oversee training programs and presentations that enable Corporate Department attorneys to more efficiently deliver timely and up-to-date advice and documents to meet clients' business objectives.

Private equity deals of all kinds

Walter's practice covers the major activities of private funds, starting with their formation. He counsels sponsors of private equity, venture capital and real estate funds in the formation process, and advises all types of investors on investments in all types of funds. Walter represents funds as they invest in and exit portfolio companies. He also represents private equity professionals as they join and leave sponsors, and counsels management groups in their compensation and equity arrangements. He also spends significant time advising companies — many controlled or sponsored by private investment funds — in equity financings, M&A and other transactions. He has represented companies from start-ups to large-cap public companies in M&A across a variety of industries, and is quick to identify and understand the sensitive points and key issues in a given transaction.

Walter offers clients timely, clear and practical advice. He aims to execute the legal part of deals in such a way that achieves clients' aims and, to the extent possible, lead to no post-closing surprises.

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Practice Focus

  • Private equity and real estate fund formation
  • M&A
  • Equity investments
  • Joint ventures
  • Management representation

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Education
  • Northwestern University School of Law, JD, cum laude
  • The University of Chicago, BA
Bar Admissions
  • Illinois
Recognitions
Recognized or listed in the following:
  • Best Lawyers in America
    Corporate Law, 2008–2025
    Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2006–2024
  • Chambers USA
    Corporate/M&A: Private Equity, 2005–2022
  • Guide to the World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers
  • Leading Lawyers Network
  • Super Lawyers
    Illinois, 2007–2011, 2013–2025
  • The Legal 500 United States
    Recommended Attorney, 2016, 2021
  • Who's Who in American Law
  • Lexology Index
    Illinois, 2006
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