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Private Equity

S. Brian Farmer Private EquityTransactions

S. Brian Farmer

Brian is a partner in the Global Corporate Group and serves as managing partner of Reed Smith's Richmond office. His practice focuses on the investment management industry, serving both institutional investors and investment managers. Brian advises universities, hospitals, state and corporate pension plans, fund of funds and family offices regarding…
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August 12, 2026
Jonathan M.A. Melmed CorporateFinancePrivate Equity

Jonathan M.A. Melmed

Jonathan Melmed is Co-Chair of the firm's Global Corporate Department as well as its Global Private Equity and M&A practice with over 25 years of experience. Jonathan represents private equity funds, pension plans, sovereigns, family offices, hedge funds, corporate clients and investment banks re U.S. and international M&A, private equity…
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August 12, 2026
Max Schleusener M&APrivate Equity

Max Schleusener

Max delivers pragmatic counsel to public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. He combines extensive transactional experience and a commercial approach to provide business-oriented solutions. Max regularly guides clients on US and cross-border transactions spanning multiple industries, leveraging Latham's global platform and wealth…
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August 12, 2026
Kristen P. Poole M&APrivate EquityWomen

Kristen P. Poole

Kristen P. Poole is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Kristen represents both public and private companies, as well as financial sponsors, in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, restructurings, and other complex…
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August 12, 2026
Patrick Gadson M&APrivate Equity

Patrick Gadson

Patrick Gadson is Co-Head of Sullivan & Cromwell's Shareholder Activism Practice and a partner in the Firm's M&A Group. Patrick's principal areas of practice are private equity, mergers and acquisitions and shareholder activism. He also counsels senior management, boards of directors, investment managers and both private equity and strategic investors…
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August 12, 2026
Denise A. Carkhuff M&APrivate EquityShares Client PhilosophyWomen

Denise A. Carkhuff

Denise Carkhuff has been the lead lawyer on M&A and private equity transactions for more than 26 years. Her experience includes diverse industries, jurisdictions, and deal structures. Denise has experience in the full life cycle of a company (from formation, capital raising, dividend recapitalizations, IPOs, sales, and dissolutions). Denise's main…
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August 20, 2025
Catherine Rossouw CorporatePrivate EquityShares Client PhilosophyWomen

Catherine Rossouw

Cathy Rossouw is a transactional private equity and corporate attorney and a partner in Chapman's Special Situations and Restructuring Group. Cathy’s diverse practice covers traditional mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, as well as early-stage equity financings, lender equity kickers, secondary market transactions, and general corporate advice. Her approach…
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August 20, 2025
Alfred Browne M&APrivate Equity

Alfred Browne

Alfred Browne is co-chair of Cooley’s private equity practice group. He is a member of Cooley’s M&A group and co-chair of the firm’s fintech practice. His clients include private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private acquisitions, including leveraged buyouts and take-private transactions.…
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August 20, 2025
Thomas M. Devaney Private EquityShares Client Philosophy

Thomas M. Devaney

Tom Devaney has served as a trusted advisor to private fund sponsors and institutional investors for more than two decades. His experience includes a distinguished track record of forming private funds and negotiating sophisticated seed and anchor investor arrangements, management team and portfolio "spin out" transactions, complex limited investor side…
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August 20, 2025