Jake Makar advises clients on M&A and other complex corporate transactions, with a particular focus on the asset management and financial services industries.

Jake draws on broad experience across the investment life cycle to represent public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and portfolio companies in connection with a range of transactions, including:

  • Mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions
  • Joint ventures
  • Minority investments
  • GP stakes transactions
  • Continuation fund transactions

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Columbia Law School, 2017
    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Senior Digital Editor, Columbia Business Law Review
  • BA in Economics & History, Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013
    with distinction