Wealth Management and Investment Advisory
- Assisted in the formation and registration of registered investment adviser (RIA) firms.
- Represented clients in acquisitions and investments over the last two years valued at more than $5 billion.
- Advised clients on more than 100 internal equity sale transactions.
- Counsel to a nationally recognized RIA with $30 billion of AUM in its acquisition of a Minnesota RIA.
- Represented one of the largest independent RIAs in the U.S. with over $20 billion in AUM in its investment from a leading global investment firm. Completed more than a dozen additional acquisitions for client.
- Represented an institutional asset management firm and RIA with $18 billion in AUM in its $480 million acquisition by a diversified global asset management firm.
- Represented an RIA in New Jersey and New York with $6 billion in AUM that specializes in financial planning and investment management in its acquisition by a global asset management and wealth management advisory services company.
- Represented a wealth management and financial advisory services firm in its acquisition by one of the nation’s largest RIAs.
- Counsel to a national multi-family office with $25 billion AUM in the sale of a majority stake to a private equity firm, together with multiple follow-on platform acquisitions.
- Counsel to a North Carolina-based RIA and broker dealer with approximately $575 billion AUA in connection with a private equity investment valuing the enterprise at approximately $1.25 billion.
- Represented more than a dozen RIAs in corporate restructuring and S corporation conversion transactions.
- Counsel to a nationally recognized UHNW firm in the acquisition of more than $10 billion of AUM.
- Represented a Midwest-based RIA in a $55 million private-equity-backed management buyout transaction and recapitalization transaction.
- Counsel to the principals of a national RIA with $10 billion of AUM in a corporate restructuring, succession planning, and governance overhaul transaction.
- Represented a management team in the management buyout of a Pennsylvania-based RIA.
- Represented a Boston-based RIA in the acquisition of an RIA subsidiary with $1 billion of AUM from a large publicly traded financial institution.
- Represented a large Illinois-based RIA in six acquisitions of competing in-market and out-of-market RIA businesses over a four-year period.
- Counsel to a publicly traded, nationally recognized bank with $140 billion of AUM in its acquisition of a state-chartered trust company and RIA with $2 billion of AUM.
- Represented a Minnesota-based RIA in a recapitalization transaction with a third-party passive investor.