Dean W. Sattler

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Sattler regularly advises on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, take private transactions, joint ventures, minority investments and other corporate, financing and business combination transactions, including bespoke and unconventional transactions.  Over the span of his nearly two decades of practice, Mr. Sattler has been involved in or led numerous novel or first of their kind transactions across a broad range of deal structures and business sectors.

Mr. Sattler’s clients include public and private companies, boards of directors, private equity firms, asset managers, pensions and hedge funds, and span a broad range of industries, including industrials and manufacturing, aviation and aerospace, space and satellite, telecommunications, technology, banking, finance, energy and infrastructure, artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure.

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Sattler has been recognized as the “Industrials & Infrastructure Dealmaker of the Year” by The Deal magazine. The award honors the leading lawyers, bankers, investors and advisers in middle market industrials and infrastructure transactions.

Mr. Sattler is also actively involved in Milbank’s Public Company Advisory and Corporate Governance Group, where he advises boards of directors and members of management on a wide variety of corporate governance and compliance matters and is the author or co-author of numerous articles and publications on those topics.

Mr. Sattler graduated with honors from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Pace Law Review. During law school, Mr. Sattler interned for the Honorable Barbara S. Jones of the US District Court, Southern District of New York. Mr. Sattler holds a B.A. from College of the Holy Cross.