KIT KAUFMAN

After 45 years of practicing law with major firms where I focused on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance, I have started a more focused practice. Kit Kaufman, Counsel to Independent Directors, will concentrate exclusively on advising independent members of boards of directors to help those directors perform their oversight duties while working effectively with the full Board, management and the company's counsel. In addition to legal knowledge, I believe I bring independent directors direct, practical, hands-on experience, having served as a member of the board of directors for five corporations and as the Chairman of two of those boards... Special Committee assignments involving both strategic transactions such as sales of companies and investigation of stock option backdating... Mergers and acquisitions including representation of Avago Technologies Ltd. in its $37 billion acquisition of Broadcom Inc. and representation of Lucasfilm in its $4..