Donald C. Walkovik is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC. Mr. Walkovik leads the Firm’s mergers and acquisitions line of business.
Previously, Mr. Walkovik was a partner of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell for 30 years until his retirement in September 2011. He joined Sullivan & Cromwell as an associate in 1973. In his career as a business, financial and M&A lawyer, he has acted as advisor to leading commercial and investment banks, insurance companies, industrial and mining corporations, and their boards of directors with respect to, among other areas, M&A matters, corporate governance matters including corporate investigations, executive succession plans, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and Federal governance requirements, restatements of audited financial statements, corporate restructuring, spin-offs, demutualizations, corporate finance and other sensitive matters. He founded and acted as the first managing partner of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Hong Kong office, making it the most rapidly growing office in Sullivan & Cromwell during his tenure. While in Hong Kong, he also established Sullivan & Cromwell’s Beijing office. He also established that Firm’s Corporate Reorganization Group. He also was for a number of years a member of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Firm Managing Partners Committee.
Mr. Walkovik is involved with Renaissance Development Corp., a lower east side small business leader. He is also a Member of the Dean’s Advisory Board for the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business.
Mr. Walkovik graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.B.A, with highest distinction, in 1970 and received a J.D., cum laude, in 1973, from Harvard Law School.