Bar Admissions
North Carolina
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D., with high honors, 2013; Order of the Coif; Articles Editor, North Carolina Law Review
Georgetown University, B.S., cum laude, 2010
Profile
Brian Litwak is a transactional attorney focusing primarily on private mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has experience representing strategic and private equity clients pursuing acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and recapitalizations across a range of industries, including health care, technology and software, manufacturing, media, insurance and financial services. He also has considerable experience collaborating with the firm’s finance and bankruptcy teams to represent lenders pursuing divestitures of portfolio companies acquired through the exercise of creditor’s rights.
Brian leverages his accounting background to provide business-oriented solutions to complex transactional matters. He brings practical judgment and market-oriented solutions to bridge gaps naturally arising in the bid-ask nature of transactions.
Brian enjoys exploring and utilizing legal technology solutions to more efficiently and effectively complete transactions. He is a member of the firm’s technology committee and regularly interfaces with the firm’s practice support department to implement legal technology solutions on his transactional matters.
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America, One to Watch, business organizations (including LLCs and partnerships), corporate, mergers and acquisitions, 2021-22
- North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Star, business/corporate, 2021-22
Clerkships
- Law Clerk, The Honorable William L. Osteen Jr., U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
Experience
Experience
Represented Milliken & Co. in the sale of its milliCare franchise division to a private equity fund.
Represented EnPro Industries in its acquisition of Alluxa, Inc., a specialized optical filters and thin-film precision coating provider.
Represented EnPro Industries in the sale of its Fairbanks Morse division to an affiliate of Arcline Investment Management for $450 million.
Represented US Radiology in numerous acquisitions of outpatient diagnostic imaging facilities.
Represented Fresenius Medical Care in its $2 billion acquisition of NxStage Medical Care, Inc.
Represented Raycom Media Inc. in its $3.65 billion sale to Gray Television Inc.
Represented ServiceTrade, a provider of commercial field service management software, in its majority recapitalization by Frontier Growth.
Represented TradePending, a provider of software for car dealerships and consumers, in its majority recapitalization by CapStreet.
Represented Roger.ai, a global accounts payable cloud software for small businesses, in its sale to FLEETCOR Technologies.
Represented private equity clients in a variety of platform and add-on acquisitions in the online ticketing, aftermarket automotive and niche manufacturing industries.
Represented mezzanine lender in numerous dispositions to strategic and private equity buyers of portfolio companies acquired through the exercise of creditor’s rights and remedies.
Represented domestic financial institution in its internal restructuring involving mergers in all 50 states.
News & Events
News
- Jan. 14, 2022
- Jan. 4, 2022
- Aug. 26, 2021
- Jan. 15, 2021
- Dec. 11, 2020
- Oct. 5, 2020
- Aug. 20, 2020
- Jan. 22, 2020
- Feb. 26, 2019
- June 26, 2018
- June 25, 2018
- Nov. 16, 2017
Affiliations
Community Affiliations
- Co-Founder of Conditions Set, a nonprofit organization providing free resume development and consultation to veterans and military personnel, 2013-18
- Georgetown Alumni Association, Alumni Interview Program, Co-Chair for Western North Carolina, 2018-present