Adam D. Ott

Adam Ott is the Vice Chair of the firm’s Corporate Group, where he advises clients on a wide range of corporate and business matters. Drawing on experience as both in-house and outside counsel, he has led and closed strategic buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions for public and private companies and financial sponsors in the United States and abroad. His transactional experience spans numerous industries, including technology, artificial intelligence, crypto, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, retail sporting goods, healthcare, gaming, food service, packaged foods, retail, engineering, transportation, telecommunications, and industrials. Adam also serves as lead outside counsel to portfolio companies of financial sponsors and privately held businesses, overseeing day-to-day legal operations and advising on the full spectrum of issues that arise throughout the lifecycle of a business. 

In addition to his general corporate and M&A practice, Adam represents businesses, family offices, funds, consultants, and other investors in evaluating, structuring, and executing strategic investments, including related due diligence, corporate governance, securities compliance, and other regulatory matters. He regularly assists financial sponsors and private companies in sourcing capital through private placements and other exempt securities offering structures and has significant experience advising minority investors, asset managers, and business executives in exercising their corporate rights and monitoring their investment portfolios. 

Before rejoining the firm, Adam practiced at Kirkland & Ellis, where he represented some of the largest companies and financial sponsors in the world in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, capital markets transactions—including spinoffs and other securities offerings—and general corporate and securities law matters. Adam also worked in-house as Deputy General Counsel to a large venture-backed tech company.  

Outside the office, Adam is a husband and father, avid fly fisherman, skier, motorcyclist, diver, aspiring sommelier, and enthusiastic participant in nearly every mountain-, water-, or canyon-related pursuit.