Jeffrey M. Davis
Partner, Co-Chair - Corporate Practice Group
jdavis@mosessinger.com

Biography

Jeff is a Partner and Co-Chair of Moses Singer's Corporate practice group and Leader of the Hospitality Industry practice. He advises on a broad range of general corporate and mergers and acquisitions matters affecting middle market companies, such as marketing services, media, healthcare, consumer products, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, and financial services. He is particularly focused on the legal needs facing the advertising and public relations industries and the hotel and hospitality industries, identifying and solving potential risks unique to these businesses.

Jeff provides assistance in negotiating financing transactions such as equity, venture capital, and public and private debt.  He has substantial experience advising clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, employment and compensation arrangements, licensing agreements, and the formation and operation of partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations, divestitures, financings, and general corporate law.

Jeff’s extensive experience representing advertising and public relations firms includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financings, and general corporate law.

For the hotel and hospitality industry, Jeff assists owners, developers and operators in the negotiation of management, technical services, and trademark licensing agreements. He represents large hotel and leisure companies as well as private investors.

Jeff is named in The Legal 500 United States - New York Elite, Corporate and M&A Rankings in 2025 and 2026. This prestigious ranking highlights top-tier legal professionals in the corporate and M&A space who are driving innovation and growth. Jeff’s inclusion is a testament to his exceptional expertise, dedication, and impact in the corporate law space. Jeff is recognized as an AV Preeminent® lawyer and one of New York's Top Rated Lawyers by Martindale-Hubbell®. He is included in Lawdragon's 2026 500 Leading Dealmakers in America Guide. He was selected as a finalist for the 2014 New York Smart ESQ Attorney of the Year Award sponsored by Smart CEO Magazine.

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Education
  • Tulane University Law School (J.D., cum laude)
  • Columbia University (M.I.A.)
  • Columbia University (B.A.)
Bar/Court Admissions
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • Texas
Professional Affiliations
  • New York State Bar Association
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • State Bar of Texas
Recognitions

Jeff is recognized in the 2026 Legal 500 New York Elite Rankings, Corporate and M&ALegal 500’s US Elite is designed to spotlight outstanding lawyers operating at regional powerhouses who are handling work at the highest levels of the legal market in their cities, states, or regions. 

Jeff is included in Lawdragon's 2026 500 Leading Dealmakers in America guide. Lawdragon describes the 2026 Dealmakers as having a skill that "is a superpower, bringing together the vast knowledge required of a client, its strategy and legal and financial underpinnings, with the momentary apple of its eye – financing, an acquisition, a joint venture, a multi-billion-dollar merger."

Jeff was selected for inclusion in the 2025 Law Dragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America guide to top transactional attorneys.  This guide recognizes the top 500 US lawyers in the areas of M&A, securities, corporate, finance, and private equity for their "can-do hustle and ability to move the needle with clients and firms themselves."  They "are the beating heart of business in the U.S. and far, far beyond.  To be a dealmaker in 2025 is inherently international, so the past year has been full of uncertainty and a fair amount of chaos, as well as the ever-present intersection of opportunity, risk and reward.” 

Jeff is named in The Legal 500 United States - New York Elite, Corporate and M&A Rankings, 2025. This prestigious ranking highlights top-tier legal professionals in the corporate and M&A space who are driving innovation and growth. Jeff’s inclusion is a testament to his exceptional expertise, dedication, and impact in the corporate law space.

Jeff is included in the 2025 Metro Super Lawyers list.