Phone: (818) 907-3216
Fax: (818) 981-4764
E-Mail: LLewitt@lewitthackman.com

Practice Areas

Education

University of San Diego Law School
Juris Doctor (1963)

  • Master of the Rolls for Excellence in Academic Achievement

Ohio State University
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration (1960)

  • Major in Finance
  • Minor in Accounting

Memberships

  • State Bar of California
  • San Fernando Valley Bar Association
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • California Society for Health Care Attorneys

Seminars

  • “Considerations When Selling A Business”

Affiliations

  • El Caballero Country Club
        - Member and Past-President
  • Anti-Defamation League
  • The Crohns and Colitis Foundation
  • Stop Cancer
  • The United Jewish Fund
  • The Guardians

Hobbies

  • Golf
  • Travel
  • Expert Witness
  • Food and Wine

Leon Lewitt received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Ohio State University in 1960, with a major in finance. He received his Juris Doctor in 1963 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he was designated a member of Master of the Rolls for excellence in academic achievement.

In 1969, Mr. Lewitt founded the predecessor to what is now the firm of Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall & Harlan. He has devoted a substantial portion of his professional career to structuring, negotiating and handling mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as health care, real estate and general corporate and business matters. He has served on the boards of directors of publicly owned companies. Mr. Lewitt is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central and Southern Districts of California and the U.S. Supreme Court, is a member of various local bar associations, and a member of the California Society For Healthcare Attorneys.

Experience

  • Handled significant mergers, acquisitions and transactions ranging from small to medium sized businesses to representation of public companies doing their merger/acquisition work.
  • Handled transactions in California, nationally, as well as Great Britain
  • Advised clients in a variety of industries including hotel, restaurant, manufacturing, intellectual property, health care, garment, retail, insurance agencies, accounting firms and other service enterprises
  • Successfully structured and negotiated shareholder and partner buy-ins/outs, as well as disputes
  • Has rendered services to professional practices such as accounting firms and medical practitioners and has represented them in purchase/sale transactions
  • Served as counsel to and on board of public companies and as trustee of many client trusts
  • Dispute resolution trained
  • Has acted as an expert witness in corporate matter

Areas of Personal Practice Satisfaction

  • Representing and advising clients in business transactions, helping them structure and negotiate transactions either as buyer or seller in a cost-efficient manner
  • Mentoring young lawyers, instilling a sense of pride in their work product and need that it be produced in an ethical manner, always keeping the client’s interest above all other considerations

 

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