Mr. Cummings has represented clients for over 25 years in a wide variety of corporate affairs, including choice of business entity and formation, dissolution, complex mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, joint ventures, public and private offerings of securities and other equity interests, sales and purchases of businesses, lending and financing arrangements, venture capital, trademark and copyright licensing agreements, and other commercial transactions. These have involved both publicly and privately owned entities and have included family held and Fortune 500 clients.

He has represented clients in a wide variety of fields, including retail department stores, medical services, import/export, printing, interactive digital services for the hospitality industry and manufacturing of a wide variety of products from polished diamonds to printed circuit boards. Mr. Cummings has also represented individuals in connection with executive employment and compensation, service on boards of directors and as an officer, consultancy arrangements and other business and personal matters. He also has represented individuals and companies in connection with employment related matters, including resolution of significant sex discrimination and sexual harassment claims.

Early in his career, he was significantly involved in the formation of the Municipal Assistance Corporation of The City of New York, the state agency established in connection with the New York City financial crisis in the 1970s, as well as the drafting and passage of the New York City debt moratorium law that was instrumental in resolving that crisis. He joined our firm in 1980 after practicing with the New York City law firm of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison following his graduation from law school in 1973.

Mr. Cummings graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College prior to receiving his J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was on the Law Review.