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.
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$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
Acquisition by Level Access of UserWay
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
Paramount Skydance Corporation in its acquisition of The Free Press
Crown Paper Group in its sale to Atlas Holdings
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
Illinois
Education
JD, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2020 magna cum laude
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