Steven J. Gartner Co-Chairman MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8222 F 212-728-9222

Steven J. Gartner is a partner of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York and is Co-Chairman of the firm. Mr. Gartner is also a member of the Executive Committee. He specializes in private equity, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters. Having served for two years in the firm’s London office, Mr. Gartner continues to be active in the firm’s international practice.

In the area of private equity, Mr. Gartner is actively involved in representing private equity funds and start-up companies. He has been involved in private equity transactions ranging from $1 million to over $5 billion, including numerous leveraged buyouts of public and private companies. Mr. Gartner’s mergers and acquisitions experience includes going-private transactions, stock and asset sales, and privately negotiated and hostile transactions.

Chambers USA (2013) and Chambers Global (2013) rank Mr. Gartner among the leading individuals practicing in the area of Private Equity: Buyouts in the United States.

Mr. Gartner is a member of the American Bar Association (Section on Business Law), the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the New Jersey Bar Association.

A frequent speaker and author, Mr. Gartner is often quoted as an expert in publications such as The Wall Street Journal on various high-profile matters with respect to corporate and financial law.

Mr. Gartner represented:

• Scotsman Industries in connection with its acquisition by ALI Group from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus
  
  
• AboveNet Inc.’s Board of Directors in connection with AboveNet’s approximately $2.2 billion agreement to be acquired by Zayo Group LLC
  
  
• MLM Information Services and Warburg Pincus in connection with Warburg Pincus’ sale of MLM to the parent company of Corporation Service Company
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in connection with its acquisition of Total Safety from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners
  
  
• Telcordia Technologies Inc., Providence Equity Partners, LLC and Warburg Pincus in the $1.15 billion sale of Telcordia to Ericsson
  
  
• MedAssets, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of The Broadlane Group
  
  
• Cobalt Holding Company in connection with its acquisition by Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
  
  
• ev3 Inc. in connection with its $2.6 billion acquisition by Covidien plc.
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in connection with its leveraged buyout (with Silver Lake) of Interactive Data Corporation
  
  
• Warburg Pincus in connection with the sale of Metavante Technologies, Inc. to Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
  
  
• The Topps Company in connection with its sale to an investment vehicle formed by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company LLC and private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC.

Corporate Governance -- Mr. Gartner has advised various public companies on issues of corporate governance and fiduciary duties, including:

• AboveNet, Inc.
  
  
• Hampshire Group, Limited
  
  
• The Topps Company, Inc.
  
  
• Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc.
  
  
• Party City Corporation
  
  
• Unilab Corporation
  
  
• Medical Resources, Inc.
  
  
• TheraTX, Incorporated
  
  
• Xomed Surgical Products
  
  
• Eagle Family Foods, Inc.
  
  
• Information Holdings Inc.
  
  
• MFS Communications Company, Inc.

• The Smith & Wollensky Restaurant Group in connection with its sale to Bunker Hill Capital
  
  
• Juniper Financial in connection with a proposed financing from its controlling stockholders
  
  
• Railworks in connection with a proposed management-led leveraged buyout
  
  
• Sbarro’s in connection with a going private transaction
  
  
• MCSi in connection with a proposed transaction with an affiliate
  
  
• USA Detergents in connection with a joint venture with Church & Dwight Co.