Gardner Davis Bio

Gardner Davis is a partner and corporate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He advises boards of directors and special committees in regard to fiduciary duty issues in various contexts, and he has extensive experience restructuring financially distressed enterprises, both inside and outside of bankruptcy. He is a member of the firm's Transactional & Securities, Bankruptcy & Business Reorganizations, and Private Equity & Venture Capital Practices. Gardner frequently represents buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisition transactions, from management buy-outs to combinations of large public companies. Since June 1, 2005, he has closed more than 150 mergers and acquisition transactions with an aggregate value of $13 billion.