Geoffrey Weinberg
Founding Partner
Geoff Weinberg is a Founding Partner of Senpoint Partners. He advises companies and investors on shareholder activism, proxy contests, mergers and acquisitions and shareholder engagement.
Before co-founding Senpoint, he was a Managing Director in the M&A and Activism Advisory Group at Sodali & Co, where he also led the retail shareholder advisory practice. He previously served as a Senior Managing Director at D.F. King & Co. Earlier, he practiced law in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Selected activism engagements include advising Procter & Gamble in its proxy contest with Trian Partners; Kroger in its contest with Carl Icahn; Softvest and Horizon Kinetics in their proxy fight with Texas Pacific Land Trust; Cannae Holdings and Senator Investment Group in their engagement with CoreLogic; Warrior Met Coal in its ESG proxy contest; Arkhouse in its campaign at IAC; ZIM, Portillo’s and BlackLine in shareholder activism matters; and HoldCo in multiple campaigns.
His M&A experience spans contested and uncontested transactions involving companies from microcap to megacap. Selected unsolicited bids include Merck KGaA’s bid for Versum Materials, Arkhouse’s bid for Macy’s and Xerox’s bid for HP. Selected challenged mergers include DB Insurance’s acquisition of Fortegra from Tiptree and Warburg Pincus; Gen Digital’s acquisition of MoneyLion; Quanterix’s acquisition of Akoya Biosciences; Standard BioTools’ merger with SomaLogic; Alumis’ merger with Acelyrin; and Rio Tinto’s cross-border acquisition of Arcadium Lithium.
His practice also covers annual meetings, corporate governance, tender offers, SPAC transactions, corporate actions and campaigns involving substantial retail ownership.
Geoff has also served as an expert in contested election litigation, co-authored activist ownership analysis published by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and spoken at NIRI events on shareholder activism, voting strategy and retail shareholder engagement.
He holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a staff editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, and an undergraduate degree from Binghamton University.
Beyond the office
Geoff is usually chasing his kids, running, traveling or chasing his kids while running and traveling (his wife and kids would argue they’re the ones chasing him). In recent years he has run marathons in New York, Seville, Tokyo, Chicago, London, Valencia and Berlin.
He started his career working for an NHL agent and is still happiest with his family at Madison Square Garden for the Knicks or Rangers, or at the Camp Nou watching FC Barcelona.