Brian Baloun is a Mergers & Acquisitions associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins and regularly represents corporate and private equity clients in complex domestic and cross-border public and private M&A transactions.
Brian advises global companies in the full spectrum of M&A matters, including going-private transactions, divisional carve-out transactions, and other domestic and cross-border strategic business combinations.
Profile
Experience
Going-Private Transactions
- US$28 billion sale of Cerner Corporation to Oracle Corporation
- US$13.5 billion stock-for-stock acquisition by Omnicom of the Interpublic Group of Companies
- US$6.3 billion pending acquisition by Long Lake Management of American Express Global Business Travel
- US$4.4 billion sale of ironSource to Unity Software
- US$1.4 billion sale of Hersha Hospitality Trust to KSL Capital Partners, LLC
- US$1.35 billion sale of Imago BioSciences to Merck
- Level Access in its acquisition of UserWay
- SoundHound AI, Inc. in its acquisition of LivePerson at an enterprise value of US$250 million
Divisional Carve-Out Transactions
- US$535 million carve-out sale of Viad Corp’s GES business to Truelink Capital
- US$35 million carve-out sale of Funding Circle Holdings’ US business segment to iBusiness Funding, LLC
- Carve-out sale of The AZEK Company’s Scranton Products business unit to Sky Island Capital
Strategic Business Combinations
- Bunge Limited in its merger with Viterra Limited to form a combined company at an enterprise value of approximately US$34 billion
- Skydance Media in its merger with Paramount to form “Paramount Skydance Corporation” at an enterprise value of approximately US$28 billion
- Merger between OhmConnect and Google Nest’s Renew service business to form Renew Home
- Merger between Frequency Therapeutics and Korro Bio
- Merger between Flame Acquisition Corp. and Sable Offshore Corp.
Private Sales / Acquisitions / Joint Ventures
- US$57 million acquisition by entities controlled by Stellex Capital Management, LLC of shares of common stock of TEAM, Inc. held by Corre Partners Management, LLC and its affiliates
- Paramount Skydance Corporation in its acquisition of The Free Press
- Goldbeck in its joint venture with M.A. Mortenson Company
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
- Illinois
Education
- JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2020
magna cum laude - BA in Political Science, University of Iowa, 2016
Practices
News & Insights
September 30, 2026
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Multidisciplinary team represents the world’s first AI holding company in the take-private transaction.
August 31, 2026
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Latham & Watkins Advises Goldbeck on Joint Venture With Mortenson
International team represents leading European construction and services company on its strategic expansion into the US market.
April 21, 2026
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