<p>Lou R. Kling has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, including negotiated and contested acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. He has also represented borrowers, issuers, underwriters and lenders in a broad spectrum of financing transactions. Mr. Kling is a permanent member of the firm&rsquo;s Policy Committee, its top governing body, co-chairman of the firm&rsquo;s Opinion Committee and chairman of the Financial Oversight and Audit Committee. He is a co-author of a leading treatise on acquisitions, Negotiated Acquisitions of Companies, Subsidiaries and Divisions.</p>