Nicolai Schwarz-Gondek
USC Gould School of Law

Nicolai M. Schwarz-Gondek is a partner in the Century City office of Sidley Austin LLP where his practice focuses on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other complex corporate transactions. Schwarz-Gondek regularly represents private equity sponsors, family offices and other institutional investors in connection with mergers, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, and leveraged and management buyouts. Schwarz-Gondek also advises target and acquiring companies (including the portfolio companies of private equity firms) on a broad range of merger and acquisition transactions. At USC Gould School of Law, Schwarz-Gondek teaches contract drafting, analysis and negotiation as a lecturer in law.

Before joining Sidley Austin LLP, Schwarz-Gondek was a partner in the private equity and M&A practice groups of O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Century City. Prior thereto, Schwarz-Gondek was a shareholder in the corporate practice group of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, PC, in Santa Monica and practiced in the corporate department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles and in the mergers and acquisitions and public company advisory groups of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.

Schwarz-Gondek holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from USC Gould School of Law, where he graduated first in his class, and received a Doctor Iuris (PhD equivalent), summa cum laude, from the University of Augsburg with a doctoral thesis on German tax law. Schwarz-Gondek is also a graduate of Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich where he completed his First State Examination (JD equivalent) and obtained his Diplom-Jurist (Univ.), specializing in the areas of business and corporate law. In addition, Schwarz-Gondek spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service.

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Annenberg Media
September 19, 2023
Re: Thomas Lenz

Thomas Lenz was quoted by Annenberg Media about the United Automobile Workers union ready to go on strike. "Strikes affect the livelihoods of those who choose to stop working. To the extent those persons aren’t earning money to spend that means stores, restaurants, and other businesses might not be as busy. If a strike lasts a long time bills might not get paid as easily, if at all," Lenz wrote.

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