David S. Stone is Chair of the Neal Gerber Eisenberg Corporate & Securities Practice Group, Co-Chair of its Cross-Border Practice Group and a member of its Corporate Governance Practice Group, where he represents clients in complex corporate and securities transactions and general corporate matters. He has advised both buyers and sellers in connection with numerous negotiated public and private mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and dispositions. David also represents clients involved in public and private tender offers, mergers and proxy contests. David has represented issuers in registered public equity offerings (including initial public offerings, secondary offerings and rights offerings) and public and private placements of equity securities, as well as investors and borrowers in private equity and venture capital investments. He acts on behalf of several public companies on an ongoing basis, in connection with matters arising under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. His clients come from many sectors of the economy, including domestic and international clients in the energy, mining, insurance, technology, manufacturing and service industries
David served from July 2003 through October 2004 as the Acting General Counsel and Secretary of Covanta Holding Corporation (formerly Danielson Holding Corporation), a holding company affiliated with entities of Chicago investor Sam Zell. In this capacity, David guided Danielson through its acquisition of Covanta Energy Corporation out of bankruptcy and the financing of Danielson’s purchase of Covanta. Subsequently, David advised Covanta in connection with its acquisition of American Ref-Fuel Holdings, Inc. in a transaction valued at $2 billion and has continued to advise Covanta on several offerings of common stock, convertible notes, and debt securities in which Covanta raised over $1 billion.
David has been recognized as a leader since 2010 in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (recommended in “Corporate/ M&A & Private Equity”). He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in each year since 2006.