Brandon C. Parris is co-chair of the firm’s 280-lawyer Global Corporate Department.

Mr. Parris’ practice primarily focuses on strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, securities offerings, as well as public company counseling. He regularly represents boards of directors, special committees, management teams and companies in a variety of industries, including high-technology, gaming, cleantech, consumer goods and services, life sciences, healthcare, biotechnology, and financial services.

In strategic matters, Mr. Parris has advised companies, special committees and financial advisers in a significant number of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, private equity investments, tender offers and joint ventures. Through his securities practice, Mr. Parris regularly advises on capital markets transactions involving both public and private equity and debt offerings, as well as transactions concentrated on liability management.

Mr. Parris also advises members of executive management, boards of directors, and special committees on strategic and corporate governance issues, and counsels numerous public companies on all aspects of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.