Pillsbury announced today that corporate lawyer David Ingles has joined the Firm’s M&A and Private Equity practice in New York. He most recently practiced at Skadden, where he served as co-leader of the Financial Institutions M&A Group.
With decades of experience, Ingles advises clients on a broad range of complex transactions in the banking, consumer finance and financial technology industries. He has substantial experience advising financial services companies and private equity firms in public and private mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, consortium deals and other complex corporate transactions.
In addition, Ingles frequently has represented financial institutions in distressed and contested situations, including unsolicited offers, takeover defenses, equity recapitalizations, bankruptcy auction transactions and activist shareholder situations. He has handled transactions in the payments and fintech space as those industries have evolved, and has also worked on engagements in the insurance, manufactured housing and telecommunications industries.
“David has handled numerous complex transactions for leading financial services clients at the very highest levels,” said Jeffrey Delaney, head of Pillsbury’s Corporate practice. “We are very excited that he will be joining our market-leading transactional practices, and are eager to leverage his extensive experience to further enhance and deepen our client offerings in New York and beyond.”
“David is a leading M&A practitioner of the highest caliber and we are thrilled to welcome him to our growing team in New York,” said Stephen Amdur, the leader of the New York M&A practice. “His arrival reflects our continued strategic focus on expanding our Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice, and our commitment to delivering premier service to our valued clients.”
“Combining Pillsbury’s broad bench of more than 200 financial services clients and my own deep contacts in the industry, I anticipate further expanding my practice in the banking, non-bank finance, specialty lending and fintech areas,” Ingles said. “The firm has a sterling reputation here in New York and across its corporate and financial services practices generally, and I especially look forward to being a part of Pillsbury’s entrepreneurial and collaborative culture.”
With Wall Street roots and more than 150 years of history, Pillsbury represents many of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as multinational banks, private equity and investment funds, and other key stakeholders. The firm’s lawyers operate from many of the top global financial markets, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Pillsbury has been steadily growing its New York transactional offerings over the past three years, with 21 new partners and counsel in corporate and securities, insolvency and restructuring, M&A, private equity, capital markets, asset finance, project finance, leveraged finance and banking finance.
With more than 100 M&A lawyers globally, Pillsbury has advised clients on some of the most sophisticated and innovative transactions in the market. In the last five years, the M&A team has advised on over 700 M&A transactions totaling $400 billion across a wide range of sectors and geographies. Pillsbury is ranked Tier 1 for M&A by The Legal 500 and Best Lawyers/U.S. News & World Report and recognized for M&A excellence by Chambers and numerous other publications.
