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Overview

"Brendan is the best lawyer I've ever dealt with. In negotiations, he calmly articulates a contentious issue in a way that is not combative. He very efficiently assesses a problem with nuanced issues.”

Chambers USA 2025

Brendan is an experienced M&A lawyer and general corporate counsel to many leading public, private, and early-stage companies. He advises clients in complex business transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, capital raising, and commercial and strategic transactions. In the board room, he counsels directors on fiduciary duties, corporate governance, and risk management. Brendan has broad experience across industries including critical infrastructure, defense, aerospace, fintech, blockchain, cryptocurrency, manufacturing, media, telecommunications, chemicals, and consumer products.

Before practicing law, Brendan served in the Middle East and Europe as a U.S. Army Field Artillery and Cavalry officer and remains active in the Defense community.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Army Emergency Relief, the U.S. Army’s official non-profit entity.  Brendan is the firmwide co-chair of Baker Botts’ military veteran affinity group, “BB Vets” and helps lead the firm’s Defense Tech practice.

"Brendan is incredibly responsive. It's not unusual for us to ask a question in the morning and be on a call the same afternoon to get an answer so that we can move forward quickly."

Chambers USA 2025

Admissions & Affiliations

  • District of Columbia Bar
  • New York State Bar

Education

  • J.D., University of Virginia School of Law 2008
    Mary Claiborne and Roy H. Ritter Scholar
  • B.A., University of Virginia 2001

Experience

  • Consensys Software Inc., the leading Ethereum software company, as lead investor in a $425 million PIPE investment used to establish the world’s largest public treasury strategy focused on Ethereum
  • Consensys Software Inc. in a variety of corporate and M&A transactions including the acquisitions of Wallet Guard, Special Mechanisms Group, HAL Collective, and Web3Auth
  • Macquarie Capital (US/UK) on the acquisition of ONYX Insight (UK) from bp (UK)
  • Maxar Technologies (f/k/a DigitalGlobe, Inc.), in a joint venture to construct and build network of small Earth observation satellites in the Middle East
  • Airdyne Aerospace Inc., in strategic corporate and commercial matters
  • Various confidential defense contractors, in corporate, fundraising, and strategic matters
  • American Industrial Partners, a middle market private equity sponsor, in several acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs, and joint ventures
  • Modern Times Group MTG AB, a publicly traded Swedish gaming group, in its acquisition of Plarium, an Israeli mobile gaming developer including the #1 RPG, RAID: Shadow Legends
  • Majid Al Futtaim Holding, an Emirati retail and hotel company, in a joint venture transaction
  • GFH Financial Group, a Bahrain-based investment bank, in several acquisitions and syndications of U.S. multi-family and commercial real estate portfolios
  • Saudi Research and Media Group, the largest integrated media group in the MENA region, in several corporate transactions including its joint venture with Qvest GmbH, a media-focused company and services provider, in Germany
  • Founders of an Artificial Intelligence retail platform in various corporate transactions
  • Confidential Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in blockchain structuring and liability mitigation strategy
  • Hull Street Energy, LLC, a middle market private equity firm, in several transactions
  • Several high profile New York City-based restaurant groups, in connection with Covid-19 federal funding matters
  • Rheogistics LLC, in its acquisition by The International Group, Inc.
  • DTI Management, LLC, a secondary live event ticket management company, in its sale to affiliates of CVC Capital Partners
  • The Prudential Insurance Company of America and the Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, in their acquisition of interests in West Deptford Energy from LS Power
  • Crius Energy, LLC, in its $328 million acquisition by Vistra Energy and its $173 million acquisition of U.S. Gas & Electric, Inc.
  • The Walt Disney Company, in its $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
  • Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., in its $1.9 billion unsolicited cash tender offer for Casey's General Stores, Inc.
  • MasterCard, in its acquisition of an interest in First Performance Global
  • STARZ, in connection with certain mergers and acquisitions transactions
  • Liberty Interactive Corporation, in its $2.4 billion acquisition of Zulily, and its $430 million sale of Provide Commerce, Inc. (ProFlowers), to FTD Companies, Inc
  • Liberty Media Corporation, in its $847 million common stock repurchase from Comcast Corporation and exchange of Leisure Arts, Inc. and a revenue sharing agreement relating to carriage of CNBC
  • Liberty Media Corporation, in its sale of $500 million of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. common stock in a repurchase transaction
  • Liberty Media Corporation, in its sale of preferred stock in Barnes & Noble, Inc.
  • Monitronics International, Inc. (MONI), in its $502 million acquisition of Security Networks LLC from affiliates of Oak Hill Capital Partners and its $130 million acquisition of alarm monitoring accounts from Pinnacle Security
  • AGL Resources Inc., in its $3.1 billion acquisition of Nicor Inc.
  • Global independent power producer in its sale of the Red Oak power generation station to Energy Capital Partners and its sale of the Ironwood power generation station to PPL Corporation
  • ProLiance Energy, in the restructuring and sale of its natural gas marketing business to an affiliate of Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.
  • Industrias Unidas, S.A. de C.V., in its sale of United Copper Industries, Inc. to KPS Partners, L.P.
  • Liberty Global plc, in connection with subsidiary VTR Finance B.V.'s global offering of US$1.4 billion of senior secured notes due 2024
  • Liberty Global plc, in connection with its tracking stock structure
  • Morgan Stanley & Co. as financial advisor to UIL Holdings in its $4.8 billion combination with Iberdrola USA
  • Lazard Freres as financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of TerraForm Power, Inc. in the $2.3 billion acquisition of Vivint Solar, Inc. by TerraForm and SunEdison Inc.
  • Lazard Freres as financial advisor to the Conflicts Committee of TerraForm Power, Inc. in the $2.4 billion acquisition of First Wind Holdings by TerraForm and SunEdison Inc.
  • Barclays Capital as financial advisor to Wisconsin Energy in its $9.1 billion acquisition of Integrys Energy
  • Barclays Capital as financial advisor in Exelon in its $6.7 billion acquisition of Pepco Holdings

Pro Bono

  • Army Emergency Relief, the official non-profit entity of the U.S. Army, providing financial assistance, educational scholarships and enduring support to Soldiers, retired Soldiers and their families 
  • Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation, the non-profit tasked by Congress to build the National Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall
  • National Veteran Small Business Coalition, the largest non-profit trade association in the U.S. representing veteran-owned small business in the Federal marketplace
  • Halcyon and Halcyon Angels, an accelerator and incubator fueling the growth of early-stage impact-focused ventures


Awards and Community

Nationwide "Private Equity Rising Star" by The Deal, 2019