Bryan Ives is co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Transactions & Securities Group and has recently concluded a 4-year term on the Firm’s management committee and service as the Firm’s Financial Partner. Bryan has deep experience in a wide range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, taxation and corporate governance, and debt and equity financing.
Bryan began his career as a tax lawyer and is a member of the American College of Tax Counsel. Using his tax background as a platform, he works with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies to design creative and tax efficient structures for their acquisition, financing and exit transactions. His clients have included pioneers in cellular, paging, and satellite telecommunications, and more recently, leaders in the internet, online marketing, software, alternative investment, financial advisory and fiber optic cable industries.
Bryan also led the investigation and analysis of Enron’s accounting for its 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.
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An Alston & Bird team led by Bryan Ives, and partners Andy Immerman and Paul Cushing, and associates William Snyder, Russell Hilton and Glenn Kunkes, advised Lightower in connection with its acquisition by Berkshire Partners LLC.
December 27, 2012
In the Press
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One hundred and forty-seven Alston & Bird attorneys have been selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The publication is universally regarded as among the few definitive guides to legal excellence, and its rankings are based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.
September 18, 2012
In the Press
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June 7, 2012
In the Press
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September 12, 2011
In the Press
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July 5, 2011
In the Press
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January 7, 2011
In the Press
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August 30, 2010
In the Press
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June 11, 2010
In the Press
Past Events
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February 25, 2010
Seminar
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February 18, 2010
Seminar
- 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, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America under corporate law.