A partner in the Corporate Department, Toby S. Myerson serves as co-head of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group and practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, leveraged buyouts, corporate governance and advice to boards of directors. During the years 1989 and 1990, Mr. Myerson left the firm and served as a Managing Director of the investment banking firm, Wasserstein Perella & Co., residing in Tokyo and heading the operations of that firm in Japan and Asia.

For the last 30 years, Mr. Myerson has advised corporations, financial institutions and investment banks on some of the largest and most high profile merger and acquisition transactions of the day. A few of Mr. Myerson’s numerous corporate clients include Citigroup Inc., The Chubb Corporation, British Telecommunications plc, Abitibi-Bowater Corporation, the Agnelli Group companies, Sprint Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, and NEC Corporation; and investment banks such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Lazard Frères, Perella Weinberg Partners, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Rothschilds, and others on their M&A matters. Recent transactions include Citigroup’s agreement to sell Nikko Asset Management to Sumitomo Trust for $1.26 billion, Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. Ltd.’s tender offer for Sepracor Inc. for $2.6 billion in cash and IFIL’s (an Agnelli Group company’s) acquisition of a controlling interest in Cushman & Wakefield for an enterprise value of $975 million.

During his legal career, Mr. Myerson has served as an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and the Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California, Berkeley). He has chaired the Committee on Foreign and Comparative Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from contested takeovers to corporate governance. Mr. Myerson is a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, a member of the board of directors of Japan Society Inc., a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he participates in the World Economic Forum; and he serves on the Lawyers Committee for the New York Public Library and other civic committees. Mr. Myerson is recognized as one of the leading Corporate/M&A lawyers in the United States by Legal 500 and by Chambers USA.