Bryan Ives is co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group and serves as the Financial Partner on the firm's management committee. Bryan has deep experience in a wide range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, taxation and corporate governance, public and private debt and equity financing, securities regulation and venture capital.
Bryan began his career in the early 1980s as a tax lawyer and is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel. Using his tax background as a platform, he began to work with private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the mid-1980s to design creative and tax efficient structures for their financing and exit transactions. His clients included pioneers in the cellular, paging and satellite telecommunications industries.
This work led to his intense participation in the 1990s capital markets explosion fueled by internet-based products and services. As part of this work, Bryan led the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team that closed numerous multi-billion dollar internet and high tech public and private transactions.
Bryan Ives is co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group and serves as the Financial Partner on the firm's management committee. Bryan has deep experience in a wide range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, taxation and corporate governance, public and private debt and equity financing, securities regulation and venture capital.
Bryan began his career in the early 1980s as a tax lawyer and is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel. Using his tax background as a platform, he began to work with private equity firms and their portfolio companies in the mid-1980s to design creative and tax efficient structures for their financing and exit transactions. His clients included pioneers in the cellular, paging and satellite telecommunications industries.
This work led to his intense participation in the 1990s capital markets explosion fueled by internet-based products and services. As part of this work, Bryan led the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team that closed numerous multi-billion dollar internet and high tech public and private transactions.
Bryan led the investigation and analysis of Enron’s accounting for its numerous structured finance and special purpose entity transactions on behalf of the Enron bankruptcy Examiner. As a part of this work, he had responsibility for determining and explaining how Enron used these transactions to enhance its reported net income and cash flow and to remove debt from its balance sheet. He also led the Examiner’s investigation of Arthur Andersen and was responsible for shaping the Examiner’s reported conclusions concerning Andersen’s role in the Enron affair.
Bryan currently represents numerous clients in a wide variety of industries, including telecommunications, internet, engineering and construction and private equity funds.
Bryan received his J.D. degree with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was articles editor of the North Carolina Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Bryan has an undergraduate degree with honors in business administration from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he majored in accounting.
Bryan is listed in Super Lawyers magazine and The Best Lawyers in America under corporate law. Bryan chaired the drafting committee for North Carolina’s Limited Liability Company Act. Bryan has frequently lectured professional groups on tax, corporate finance and securities law matters, including the ABA Section of Taxation, Tulane Tax Institute, Kentucky Tax Institute, UNC Tax Institute and the Southern Federal Tax Institute.