Ron Daitz
Ron Daitz is the former senior partner of the Institutional Finance Practice of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. He was at the Firm for more than 40 years and has extensive transaction experience.
Ron's experience encompasses, among other things, acquisition financings, tender offer financings, cross border transactions, project finance, asset based loans, debt restructurings, debtor in possession financings, exit financings and 144A financings. He has also been actively involved in mergers and acquisitions, including M&A transactions involving companies in the banking and financial services industries. He and his firm worked closely on developing Daymon’s ESOP and other equity compensation plans for officers.
Ron met Peter Schwartz in 1957 when they were classmates and fraternity brothers at Amherst College, from which Ron graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. In 1964, Ron graduated from Harvard Law School. Ron met Milt Sender through Ron’s relationship with Peter Schwartz. Over the years, Ron was an advisor first to Peter and then to Milt and Daymon.
While at Weil, Gotshal, Ron gained extensive transaction experience that encompassed financings, restructurings, capital markets transactions and mergers & acquisitions, including M&A transactions involving companies in the banking and financial services industries. He is a past chair of the Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, a section with more than 4,000 members, was a member of the Executive Committee of that section and is a member of its Committee on Securities Regulation. He is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, a member of the American Bar Association, a member of the Committee on Federal Securities Regulations of its Business Law Section, a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of that Association's Corporation Law Committee and a member of TriBar, a committee of representatives of a broad range of bar associations that focuses on third party legal opinions.