Bartley Deamer has substantial experience in a wide variety of corporate and private equity acquisitions of public and private companies, acquisition financings (including subordinated debt), strategic alliances combining investment with commercial and technology ties, private and public securities offerings and senior debt transactions. He has led the legal team for over 90 acquisitions and sales. He regularly acts as acquisition counsel for Oracle Corporation and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company.
Bart’s clients include multinationals based within and outside the United States and privately held companies in a wide variety of industries, including software, semiconductor, computers and computer storage, energy, insurance, communications, distribution, transportation, retailing and agribusiness. He is also regular counsel to one of the West Coast’s largest institutional investors in investment funds. Recurring elements in his work include structured bids for the acquisition of companies, the design of complex and innovative securities, tax- and accounting-driven deal features and transactions that combine finance, investment, an acquisition, technology licensing and/or supply and output rights.
Several of the acquisitions for which he was the lead transactions lawyer resulted in leading cases on the obligations of public company directors in acquisitions.
- The Best Lawyers in America, Leading Lawyer in Corporate Law (2007-2010), in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law and in Mergers & Acquisitions Law (2010)
- Listed for more than 10 years in The Best Lawyers in America
- “Silicon Valley’s Top Attorneys,” San Jose magazine (2005)
- Super Lawyers, Northern California (2004, 2006-2007)
- Note editor, Harvard Law Review
- American Bar Association
- Fellow, American College of Investment Counsel
- Admitted to practice in California
- Harvard Law School, Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1970
- Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts, 1966