Adam D. Ott

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.