Don Lents serves as Sr. Partner & Chair Emeritus of the firm. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities law and general corporate matters with particular emphasis upon multinational and domestic mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, anti-takeover planning, responsibilities of boards of directors and related matters. He is co-author of a treatise on Missouri Corporation Law and Practice and of articles on various corporate law issues. He has been an adjunct professor at the Washington University Law School.

Mr. Lents has served for a number of years as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and previously served as head of the firm’s Transactions Practice and chair of the Corporate Department. He also was the partner in charge of the firm’s London office from its opening in 1982 through 1984.