Adam Ott is an experienced and trusted advisor to a diverse group of clients ranging from multinational corporations to closely held private businesses on a myriad of issues ranging from general/outside counsel matters to complex dealmaking.

Capabilities

Biography

Adam Ott is a member of the firm’s corporate group where he advises clients on a wide variety of business matters. Having served as both inside and outside counsel, he has advised and closed deals for a broad range of public and private companies and financial sponsors in the United States and abroad in a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, crypto, pharmaceuticals, retail, gaming, transportation, telecommunications, and industrials. Adam also enjoys working with business leaders and operators as outside general counsel, leveraging his personal network where helpful and advising them on a host of legal aspects that surface throughout the lifecycle of a business.

Prior to rejoining the firm, Adam practiced at Kirkland & Ellis where he represented some of the largest companies and financial sponsors in the world in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, capital markets transactions, including spinoffs and other forms of securities offerings, and general corporate governance and securities law matters.

Adam received both his graduate and undergraduate degrees from Brigham Young University, where he was one of few students ever invited to attend law school while simultaneously finishing his undergraduate studies. While attending law school, Adam contributed to several works of legal scholarship, including several publications with Oxford University Press. He was also initiated into the international legal honor society Phi Delta Phi and received the J. Reuben Clark Public Interest Service Award in recognition of his pro bono efforts throughout the course of law school.

Experience

Represented private equity fund in acquisition of multinational packaging company

Represented private equity fund in sale of commercial machinery fabricator and distributor platform

Represented private equity fund in acquisition of multinational digital marketing agency

Accomplishments

Academic

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School (J.D., 2018)

  • Phi Delta Phi Legal Honor Society
  • J. Reuben Clark Public Interest Service Award    

Brigham Young University (B.A., 2015)

  • Phi Alpha Theta
  • Delta Phi Alpha

Professional

Named Super Lawyers Mountain States Rising Star in 2022 & 2023

Associations

Professional

Board Member, Association for Corporate Growth Utah

Member, Mountain West Capital Network

Member, American Bar Association

Utah State Bar

  • Young Lawyers Division
  • Securities Law Section
  • Business Law Section
  • Intellectual Property Section
  • Corporation Counsel Section

Community

Member, Bonefish and Tarpon Trust

Member, Trout Unlimited

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Articles

Credentials

Licensed

Utah
U.S. Dist. Court, Dist. of Utah

Education

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School