Hans Brigham is the Managing Partner of the Boston office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Practices. Mr. Brigham's practice focuses on providing a broad range of transaction-based services for private equity, growth equity and venture firms, as well as strategic acquirers and sellers.
In addition to straightforward mergers and acquisitions, his experience includes:
- Leveraged buyouts
- Management-led buyouts
- “Take private” transactions
- Structured Capital transactions
- Equity/debt recapitalizations
- Growth equity and venture capital investing
Mr. Brigham has been named as:
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A leading lawyer for Corporate/M&A, Private Equity: Buyouts, and Private Equity: Venture Capital by Chambers USA 2019
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A leading lawyer for corporate law and mergers and acquisitions by The Best Lawyers in America 2006-2020
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A BTI Client Service All-Star in 2017
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One of the 2006 Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America
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The Boston Globe’s mergers and acquisitions recipient of the 2008 and 2009 Best Lawyers in Boston
Mr. Brigham’s recent transactions include advising:
- Harvest Partners Structured Capital Fund in several transactions, including its:
- Investment in American Roland Foods
- Investment in OTG Management
- Investment in GPM Investments
- Falcon Investment Advisors in multiple transactions, including its:
- Investment in CardConnect
- Investment in Titan
- New Heritage Capital in several transactions, including its:
- Acquisition of The Execu/Search Group, LLC
- Investment in Continental Services
- Perella Weinberg Partners in multiple transactions, including its:
- Investment in Western Window Systems
- Acquisition of MSA Security
- Investment B. Lane, Inc. (D.B.A. Fashion to Figure)
- Westview Capital Partners numerous investments including its:
- Acquisition of Northwest Plan Services
- Investment in English Color
- Acquisition of a controlling interest in Graphic Controls, Inc.*
- Acquisition and disposition of LDiscovery, LLC
- Teradyne, Inc. in its acquisition of LitePoint Corporation
- Titan Fitness in its acquisition of NewFit, Ltd.
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham