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Adam Waldman is the Co-Founder and President of The Endeavor Group, a boutique firm that represents the business, philanthropic and other personal interests of wealthy individuals. Endeavor’s work includes all aspects of private equity investment, portfolio company management, asset acquisition and sale, and large-scale project execution on behalf of its clients. Mr. Waldman has extensive experience as a legal and business advisor to individuals, corporations and government.
Mr. Waldman acts in several capacities on behalf of Endeavor clients. For example, he serves on the Board of Directors of several privately held companies in which clients hold significant equity interests, providing a wide range of management, legal and investment services. He also serves on the Boards of Directors and Executive Committees of philanthropic organizations representing client interests. For example, The Endeavor Group helped create and continues to oversee Friends of the Global Fight, an organization that acts as the United States’ surrogate for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Mr. Waldman was closely involved in the creation of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade in Africa), an organization founded by Bono, Bill Gates III, George Soros and Edward W. Scott, Jr. and remains actively involved in its operations. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Global Development since 2003.
From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Waldman served as the Senior Telecommunications Counsel to Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein at the U.S. Department of Justice. As Mr. Klein’s Senior Counsel, Mr. Waldman was responsible for overseeing DOJ’s investigation of proposed merger transactions in the telecommunications sector and on the corporate aspects of the Government’s proposed breakup of the Microsoft Corporation. Prior to his government service, Mr. Waldman was a corporate lawyer and mergers & acquisitions specialist in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he facilitated domestic and international corporate transactions.
Mr. Waldman received his Juris Doctorate from the American University Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review and author of one of the seminal comments on derivatives; OTC Derivatives and Systemic Risk: Innovative Finance or the Dance into the Abyss?" 43 American University Law Review 1023 (1994). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rollins College, where he was a member of the Varsity Soccer team. Mr. Waldman lives in Washington, DC with his wife and three young children. | 