Brian Bruzzo advises clients on corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and public company representation matters.

Brian regularly advises issuers and investment banks in a variety of capital markets transactions, including:

  • Secured and unsecured high yield debt offerings
  • SEC registered offerings
  • Liability management transactions, including tender offers and exchange offers
  • Corporate governance, periodic reporting, and public company compliance matters

Brian maintains an active pro bono practice, representing individuals seeking asylum status in the United States and serving on the Houston office’s pro bono committee.

Brian’s experience includes advising:

Capital Markets

  • WaterBridge Infrastructure on its US$677 million upsized initial public offering and full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares
  • Underwriters on BKV Corporation’s US$270 million IPO
  • Underwriters on Kodiak Gas Services’ US$256 million IPO
  • WaterBridge Infrastructure on its upsized inaugural high yield notes offering of US $1.425 billion aggregate principal amount
  • Initial purchasers on BKV Corporation’s inaugural high yield notes offering of US$500 million aggregate principal amount
  • Initial purchasers on Northern Oil and Gas’ $725 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
  • Waste Connections on multiple USD-denominated and CAD-denominated registered senior notes offerings totaling over US$750 million registered senior notes offering and subsequent C$500 million senior notes offering in Canada
  • Initial Purchasers on Aris Water Solutions’ upsized US$500 million senior notes offering
  • Expand Energy in its US$750 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
  • TotalEnergies on multiple registered guaranteed notes offerings totaling over US$5 billion in aggregate
  • Underwriters and initial purchasers on multiple Permian Resources equity and senior notes offerings totaling over US$4 billion in aggregate
  • Initial purchasers and underwriters on multiple Matador Resources senior notes offerings and an offering of common stock, totaling approximately US$2 billion in aggregate
  • Energy Transfer on multiple senior unsecured and fix-to-fixed junior subordinated notes offerings totaling over US$8 billion in aggregate
  • Innoviz Technologies in its US$40 million registered direct offering
  • UGI on its US$610 million convertible senior notes offering
  • The underwriters on Diamondback Energy’s US$2.2 billion secondary offering of common stock
  • Baytex in its upsized US$575 million senior notes offering
  • Equitrans Midstream in its US$600 million senior notes offering<
  • CNX Resources in its US$400 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
  • Initial purchasers and underwriters on Talos Energy’s US$1.25 billion 144A second-priority senior secured notes offering and simultaneous US$351 million common stock offering
  • Archrock on its US$700 million senior notes offering and concurrent tender offer
  • Initial purchasers on Anteros Midstream’s US$600 million senior notes offering
  • Initial purchasers on Kinetik Holdings’ US$1 billion sustainability-linked notes offering

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Sallyport Commercial Finance in its sale to Northrim BanCorp
  • Fold, Inc. in its merger with FTAC Emerald Acquisition Corp.
  • Vencer Energy in its sale of assets to Civitas for US$2.15 billion
  • Enagás in its sale of its stake in Tallgrass Energy to Blackstone Infrastructure Partners for US$1.1 billion
  • Incitec Pivot Limited in its sale of its ammonia manufacturing facility located in Waggaman, Louisiana, to CF Industries Holdings, Inc. for a total value of US$1.675 billion
  • Otonomo Technologies Ltd. in its merger agreement with Urgent.Ly, Inc., in an all-stock transaction
  • EP Energy in its sale to Verdun Oil Company II, LLC, a portfolio company of EnCap Investments, for approximately US$1.45 billion

Bar Qualification

  • Texas

Education

  • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2021
  • BA in Political Science, George Washington University, 2016