Schulte Roth & Zabel
Eleazer (“Ele”) Klein is a partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel and co-head of the firm’s global shareholder activism practice. Ele practices in the areas of securities law, shareholder activism, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance. He represents activists and companies in matters ranging from corporate governance and control to proxy contests and defensive strategies. He is also well-known for his expertise since the early 1990s in the development and implementation of alternative investment structures for private equity investments and, specifically, the structuring and negotiating of private investments in public equity, or PIPEs, and related products including registered direct offerings, convertible 144A offerings, reverse mergers, equity lines and SPACs. Ele works on numerous activist campaigns, regulatory and reporting matters and PIPE or PIPE market-related transactions every year for some of the largest private investment groups and investment banks in the United States and abroad. He contributed to Shareholder Activism Insight 2014 (published by SRZ in association with Mergermarket) and authored the “Transaction Reporting” chapter in Investment Management: Law and Practice (published by Oxford University Press). Ele received his J.D. from Yale Law School and his B.S., summa cum laude, from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.