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Martin P. LevinOf Counselmpl@cll.com212.790.9200 x 560 |
Click here to visit my Blog Martin Levin & Friends Represents publishing clients in the 'sell' or 'buy' side of mergers and acquisitions, building on 37 years of experience as operating executive in book and magazine publishing and 25 years of successful experience as a financial advisor and attorney.
Actively involved in the completion of over 105 transactions representing independent publishers. Transactions concluded with Random House, McGraw-Hill, Thomson, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Transactions include the sale of Lawyers Weekly (legal publisher) to Dolan Media. Construction Data Corporation (business periodical and on-line publisher) to Alta Communications (venture group) and Walker & Co. (trade and juvenile publisher) to Bloomsbury Ltd. (international trade publisher). Oceana (international law book publisher) to Oxford University Press. The Haworth Press, Inc. (behavorial sciences books and journals) to Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. (1984 - present)
The van Tulleken Company (2003 - 2004) - international merger and acquisition specialist
President, Times Mirror Book Publishing Group (1966 - 1983)
Senior Vice President and Board of Directors, Grosset & Dunlap (1950 - 1966)
Chairman, New American Library - Harry N. Abrams member of Popular Science Board of Directors
The Contemporary Guide to Negotiating the Author-Publisher Contract (New York Law School Journal, Vol. 54; 2009/2010)
A View of the American Publishing Landscape (Logos, Vol. 15, Issue 2, 2004)
How to Be Your Own Literary Agent (4th Edition 2002, Ten Speed Press)
Adjunct Professor, New York Law School (1985 - present)
Fellow and lecturer, Stanford University Professional Publishing Course, Palo Alto, CA (1981- present)
Resident Faculty, Yale Publishing Course (2010-Pres.)
Erich Fromm award for three decades of service and for establishing an extraordinary Journal program (2003 William Alanson Institute)
Curtis Benjamin Award from American Association of Publishers for lifetime achievement (1999)
Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard University Press (1984 - 1994)
Friend of Jerusalem Award (1985)
Chairman, Association of American Publishers (1981- 1982)
First delegation of U.S. publishers to U.S.S.R. (1976); advisor to Reader's Digest in establishing Russian Language edition (1991) and represented American Institute of Physics in negotiations with Academy of Sciences in U.S.S.R.
First delegation to People's Republic of China (1976)
Chairman, Franklin Book Programs (1960 - 62)
Ford Foundation, India (on leave 1959 - 58); consultant to Southern Languages Book Trust
New York Law School (JD 1983)
Temple University (BS 1946)
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