Paul Jacobs, a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s New York office since 1978, is Co-Head of the Firm's Corporation, Business and Banking Department. Mr. Jacobs is primarily engaged in the practice of corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, joint ventures and licensing arrangements. He has been consistently recognized as a leading Corporate lawyer in a number of fields including private equity and venture capital by his peers and various publications. 

Mr. Jacobs also represents companies and investment groups engaged in leveraged buyouts, venture capital activities and other financing arrangements; foreign companies that have U.S. subsidiaries; and foreign companies selling securities in the U.S. markets. He also represents a number of publicly traded companies and has represented several special committees (including Audit Committees) of the boards of directors of publicly traded companies. Mr. Jacobs served as a member of the Firm's elected Policy Committee for eighteen years and he has served as a director of several publicly-traded companies and on the Advisory Committee of two different venture capital groups.

Mr. Jacobs has more than 35 years of corporate and securities law experience representing:

• Issuers and underwriters in more than 50 public offerings
• At least 30 different venture capital funds in connection with their portfolio transactions
• Issuers in excess of 75 private placements
• More than 25 different publicly traded companies

• American Bar Association
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York
  • Committee on Problems Concerning the Recruitment of New Lawyers (1992 - 1996)
• New York State Bar Association

• Who's Who in American Law
• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who in the World
• Chambers USA, Americas Leading Lawyers for Business - Leading Individual (Private Equity: Buyouts and Venture Capital Investment)
• "New York Super Lawyer," Business/Corporate, Law & Politics
• "The Best Lawyers in America"

1971 - J.D., Columbia University Law School
1967 - B.A., Political Science, Colgate University

Mr. Jacobs was elected to Phi Beta Kappa while attending Colgate University. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1971.