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$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
- Pending stock-for-stock acquisition by Omnicom of the Interpublic Group of Companies
- 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
- US$8 billion merger between Skydance Media and Paramount to form “Paramount Skydance Corporation”
- US$8.2 billion acquisition by Bunge of Viterra
- 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 - BA in Political Science, University of Iowa, 2016
Practices
News & Insights
October 6, 2025
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Firm represents the next generation global media and entertainment company in the transaction.
June 24, 2025
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Latham & Watkins Advises The AZEK Company in Sale of Scranton Products Business to Sky Island Capital
Multidisciplinary team represented the outdoor living products manufacturer in the divestiture of the partitions and lockers company.
December 9, 2024
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October 21, 2024
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July 29, 2024
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