Adam D. Ott

Adam Ott is a member of the firm’s corporate group where he advises clients on a wide variety of corporate and business matters. Having served as both in-house and outside legal counsel, he has advised and closed strategic buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions 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, food service, engineering, transportation, telecommunications, and industrials. He has also served as lead outside counsel to numerous portfolio companies of financial sponsors and privately held businesses overseeing their day-to-day legal operations and advising them on the litany of legal issues that surface throughout the lifecycle of a business.

In addition to his general corporate and M&A practice, Adam represents a number of family offices, funds, consultants, and other investors in evaluating, structuring, and executing strategic investments, including due diligence, corporate governance, and related securities compliance matters. He has also helped numerous financial sponsors and private businesses safely and effectively source capital via private placements and other exempt securities offerings of all sizes. Adam also has significant experience in representing minority investors, asset managers, and business executives in exercising their corporate rights and otherwise monitoring their investment portfolios.

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. In addition to being a husband and father, he is an avid fly fisherman, motorcyclist, aspiring sommelier, and connoisseur of almost any mountain/canyon-related activity.