Bio

Gary A. Schonwald was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1942.  He is a member of the bar in New York and Florida.

Following a clerkship with the Honorable Edward J. Dimock (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York), he joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a tax and corporate associate.  In 1973, Gary established an independent practice which became Schonwald, Schaffzin & Mullman.  In 1989, Gary joined Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan, now Blank Rome LLP and in 1997 he joined Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein and Selz where he headed the corporate group.  Throughout his career he has represented clients in a broad range of mergers and acquisitions in both the public and private arenas.  In 2003, he joined the firm as a member. 

Gary services clients in a broad range of corporate matters including private venture capital, bank financing, mergers and acquisitions, public securities and magazine formation and acquisition.

Gary has served on the Boards of Directors of a number of private and non-profit entities and is currently a director of the Mint Theatre Company in New York City.