BakerHostetler is proud to announce the addition of two corporate partners to its Atlanta office. Partners David Brown and Clayton Coley will join BakerHostetler’s Business and Corporate Group effective May 7. They join from McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, where Brown served as head of the firm’s Corporate Finance Group.
Brown’s practice focuses primarily on corporate and project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance in a number of industries including financial services, healthcare, consumer goods, real estate, and technology. He advises clients on sophisticated financing, structuring, and lending matters. Brown also counsels public companies and institutional shareholders on SEC reporting and disclosure requirements, corporate governance issues, proxy contests, and other corporate and securities matters. He has represented clients in transactions with values of up to $13 billion.
“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with a firm that has significant tax, real estate, and corporate practices and allows me to continue offering the highest level of service to my clients,” said Brown. “BakerHostetler is a collegial environment with a strong sense of espirit de corps while also having significant breadth and depth of resources to offer its clients.”
Brown earned his J.D. and MBA from Georgia State University College of Law, cum laude, in 2000, and his B.A. from Emory University in 1995. During law school, Brown clerked for The Honorable P. Harris Hines of the Supreme Court of Georgia and interned with the Atlanta District Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also served as the associate legislation editor of the Georgia State University Law Review. Prior to entering law school, Brown worked for a national investment firm as a supervisory review principal. He has earned recommendations by Chambers USA and The Legal 500, is a member of Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend magazine, and was named a Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine.
Coley focuses on representing public and privately held companies in regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology. He has extensive experience in a variety of transactions, including representation of both strategic and financial buyers in merger and acquisition and venture capital transactions, and related aspects of federal and state securities laws, including SEC filings, and advises investors and early-stage companies seeking financing through private equity transactions. Coley also advises companies in venture capital, general corporate and operational matters, and on pre-merger notification filings with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
Coley earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004, and his M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Queens College in 1997.
“Adding David and Clayton as the first corporate lawyers in our Atlanta office enhances the expanding business and corporate services we provide to our clients across the U.S.,” said John Gherlein, Chair of the firm’s Business and Corporate Group. “Their experience handling a diverse set of corporate and finance transactions will add to our highly accomplished business practice.”
“We are excited to welcome David and Clayton to our Atlanta office,” said Chris Arena, Partner-in-Charge of the Atlanta office. “While we have been able to offer our clients corporate services seamlessly across our other offices, having them as part of the Atlanta team will bolster the services we offer to local clients and provide many opportunities for collaboration with our growing IP transactional practice.”
BakerHostetler’s nearly 200 business and corporate attorneys represent clients in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America in nearly every segment of industry, including software, communications, media, life sciences, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, banking and finance, real estate, hospitality, technology, transportation, insurance, and more. The group works closely across other practices, including tax, IP, litigation, and employment to provide strategic counsel on corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, debt and equity financing, real estate, bankruptcy, project and structured finance, and compliance with laws and regulations governing international trade.
BakerHostetler established its Atlanta office in 2014 when it combined with renowned IP boutique firm Woodcock Washburn.
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