Lawyers in United States

Brooke Gram

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Brooke Hollmann

Associate

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Brooke Ingoglia

Associate - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brooke Kim

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brooke Ringel

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Brooks E. Allen

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Brooks Giles

Mergers and acquisitions can be a tricky business, but Brooks Giles has a way of cutting through the complexity. His extensive experience and pragmatic mindset get deals to closing on time and on budget. Brooks helps equity investors and business owners buy and sell operating businesses. Many of his transactions involve the purchase of private companies by private equity firms. He also represents sellers in such deals, which typically range in value from $25 million to $500 million. For all his clients, he finds the right structure for the transaction, negotiates the terms and offers guidance on corporate governance and general corporate matters. Brooks has successfully closed a large number of middle-market M&A deals, using structures that include stock purchases, asset sales, taxable and tax-free mergers and leveraged recapitalizations. He knows the importance of closing on time, on budget and at market terms. More importantly, he knows how to achieve those goals. In every deal he touches, he looks to use his accumulated knowledge, together with specialist input, to resolve issues before they become crises.

Katten

Brooks Gruemmer

Brooks B. Gruemmer is a corporate partner with a wide-ranging practice representing private equity and other investment funds and private and public companies, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, joint ventures, and the related financing required to fund such transactions. Brooks is a former member of the Firm’s Management Committee and served as head of the Chicago office’s Transactions Practice Group for over a decade. Brooks has represented clients in a wide range of transactions, business ventures and general corporate matters. He regularly represents a number of private equity and other investment funds in leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, divestitures and recapitalizations. He also represents privately held and publicly traded corporations in connection with a variety of corporate matters, including strategic mergers and other acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, securities law disclosure and compliance matters, and executive compensation. In recent years, Brooks has advised acquirers of financially distressed companies, inside and outside of bankruptcy, and in connection with debt and equity restructurings, workouts and related financings. Brooks brings a unique perspective to private practice, having spent approximately four years as vice president of administration and general counsel of Favorite Brands International, Inc., the fourth-largest manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States. While at Favorite Brands, Brooks was a member of the executive committee and oversaw numerous acquisitions, financings that raised more than $1 billion, and the eventual sale of the Company to Nabisco.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Bruce Bennett

Of Counsel

Jones Day

Bruce Berman

Partner General Counsel

WilmerHale

Bruce Bower

Lee & Hayes, PC

Bruce Cahn

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Bruce Dallas

Senior Counsel

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Bruce Duffield

Senior Counsel - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Bruce Ericson

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Bruce Ettelson

Bruce Ettelson, a partner and founder of Kirkland’s Investment Funds Group, focuses on structuring and forming premier private equity funds and their management companies, including funds for AEA, GI Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Gryphon Investors, Levine Leichtman, Madison Dearborn Partners, Marlin Equity Partners, Nautic Partners, Northern Trust, Peak Rock Capital, Summit Partners, Thoma Bravo, Vestar, Victory Park Capital and Wynnchurch Capital. Mr. Ettelson has represented over 100 private equity firms in the formation of over 500 funds. He also represents participants in secondary market transactions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Bruce G Paulsen

Seward & Kissel LLP

Bruce Gelman

Tax partner with extensive experience advising fund sponsors and investors (both offshore and domestic). Concentrates in the organization and structuring of real estate, infrastructure and other alternative-asset investment funds. Significant experience representing offshore investors in the U.S. property and infrastructure markets. Maintains a broad tax planning practice representing REITs and other investors in real estate.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Bruce Grabow

Bruce Grabow represents independent power developers and other energy companies in matters involving generation development and interconnection, load interconnection and studies, transmission service and wholesale power markets. With more than 30 years of experience before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Bruce advises clients across the United States on securing the regulatory approvals needed to connect generation projects to the electric grid and deliver power into U.S. wholesale electricity markets. With deep knowledge of existing and evolving market rules and regulatory policy, Bruce helps clients navigate emerging and complex federal and state commercial and infrastructure issues at the intersection of generation development, transmission needs and load interconnection driven by data center demand. Developers rely on his guidance when projects encounter obstacles in the generation and load interconnection process. Bruce works with clients and grid operators to address disputes involving interconnection studies, project costs and transmission availability, helping projects move forward while ensuring compliance with applicable tariffs and reliability requirements. Bruce regularly advises clients on and participates in regional transmission organization processes across the United States, including MISO, SPP, PJM, NYISO, ISO-NE and CAISO, pursues and develops tariff and policy changes and, when necessary, brings complaints and other proceedings before FERC and the courts to address practices affecting generation interconnection, transmission service and market participation.

Sheppard

Bruce Johnson

Partner

Ballard Spahr LLP

Bruce Leto

Executive Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Bruce Likoff

Of Counsel - Real Estate

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Bruce McCulloch

Partner

Freshfields

Bruce McDonald

Partner

Jones Day