Joseph P. Landy, Co-President, joined the firm in 1985 and has focused on investments in information technology, communications applications and structured investments. He holds a B.S. degree in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. A former President of the Venture Investors Association of New York, he is a Trustee of the Clark Art Institute and a director of Avaya, Neustar, The Cobalt Group and MicroVest, an investment fund focused on microfinance institutions in developing countries.
Ron Lubash is the
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Markstone Capital, Israel's largest
private equity fund. Markstone Capital is an $800 million ‘old economy’
value–investing private equity fund. Markstone Capital in backed by the
New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYCRF), CalPERS, Oregon State
Treasury, North Carolina State Treasury, four New York City Pension
Funds and other major U.S. pension funds as well as U.S., European and
Israeli institutions and private investors.
Prior to co-founding the Fund, Ron Lubash was a Managing Director of
Lehman Brothers as well as the CEO of Lehman Brothers (Israel) Ltd. and
Lehman Brothers’ Israel Country head. He was with Lehman Brothers since
1993 and opened the firm’s Tel-Aviv office in 1994.
Prior to Lehman Brothers, he was at First Boston and Credit Suisse First
Boston for almost 8 years, as a cross-border M&A specialist. During that
period, he initiated First Boston’s Israel Desk (which later became a
Group). After moving to London, he established CSFB’s Central /Eastern
European M&A activities, with bases in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and
Moscow.
He has served as a trusted advisor to many of Israel’s leading
corporations, including technology and telecommunications companies,
financial institutions and industrial enterprises, as well as to the
government of Israel on various financings and privatizations.
Additionally, he served on Lehman Brothers’ European Investment Banking
Operating Committee (EIBOC).
Between 1993 and 2003, Ron Lubash has managed a team that has executed
over $25 billion of equity, debt and cross-border and domestic M&A
transactions for Israeli firms, including offerings for Israel’s most
notable technology companies, as well as the major bank privatizations,
and government and Israel Electric debt offerings.
Ron Lubash holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BSc. in
Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California. He is also
the Chairman of the Israeli Board of the Youth Renewal Fund (YRF), a
nonprofit organization dedicated to the education of over 9000
economically underprivileged children.
John O’Neill is the Americas Director of Private Equity at Ernst &
Young. Throughout his 26 year career, he has advised many large and
medium size private equity firms in the areas of mergers, acquisitions,
divestitures, leveraged buyouts, bankruptcy, debt workout, cross-border
transactions, with a focus on the retail and distribution, consumer
products, and manufacturing industries.
John is a member of the Private Equity Leadership Network (PELN),
sponsored by Ernst & Young. The PELN is a select group of general
partners drawn from some of the largest buyout-focused private equity
firms based in the United States.
John has a B.S. in Accounting from Fairfield University and an M.B.A. in
Taxation from the Iona Graduate School of Business. He is the author of
the chapter “Tax Aspects of Bankruptcy Sales and Acquisitions” in the
treatise, ¬Bankruptcy Business Acquisitions (Lex Med Publishing, 1999).
He serves as Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Charles F. Dolan
School of Business at Fairfield University and Treasurer/Board member of
the Ackerman Institute for the Family.
Dan Dunn is a partner in
O'Melveny & Myers' New York office and a member of the firm's Tax
Practice. He has experience in matters involving international joint
ventures, securities offerings of domestic and foreign issuers, and
cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Dan has advised both U.S. and
non-U.S. investors and businesses regarding the U.S. tax consequences of
their U.S. and offshore investments and business activities, including
activities in Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
Illustrative Professional Experience
• Represents various multinational
corporations in cross-border acquisitions and international operating
and holding structures
• Engineered domestic and cross-border
acquisition and disposition structures for numerous private equity
groups
• Structured various investment funds
(e.g., distressed debt, private equity, real estate) marketed to global
investors
• Formed and restructured numerous
operating joint ventures and investment funds for partners/investors in
multiple jurisdictions, which were designed to operated in and invest in
multiple tax jurisdictions
• Multiple cross-border film finance
transactions for a variety of major U.S. and non-U.S. studios and
investment banks
Education
George Washington University, J.D., 1992: with honors; Editor-in-Chief,
College of the Holy Cross, B.A., 1985
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