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Taryn Brown

Taryn Brown

Associate
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Taryn Brown is a member of the Firm's North America Corporate & Securities Practice Group in our New York office. Taryn has extensive experience in transactional, corporate governance, financial restructuring, and securities law matters. She advices and counsels clients on a wide variety of legal matters. She has also analyzed and negotiated a wide variety of commercial agreements, including investment, management, vendor, technology, merchandise, employment and lease agreements as well as corporate organizational documents.

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Taryn worked as Vice President for a sports and entertainment company specializing in hospitality, merchandise, project management and facility operations. She also worked for a major law firm as a Mergers & Acquisitions Associate where she focused on private equity mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, dispositions, carve-outs and asset manager transactions. She advised public and private clients in a wide variety of corporate deals, including structuring, documenting and closing public offerings, asset manager sales, stock purchases, asset purchases, mergers, restructurings and recapitalizations.

Practice Focus

Taryn focuses her practice on advising on private equity mergers and acquisitions transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, dispositions, carve-outs and asset manager transactions. She also advises public and private clients in a wide variety of corporate matters, including public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance and disclosure issues, financial restructurings, corporate governance matters and the negotiation of commercial contracts.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Represented German private equity firm, AURELIUS, on the acquisition of the LSG Group International, the leading airline caterer, from Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

  • Represented Donaldson Company, Inc. on its biotech and life science acquisitions of Purilogics, LLC., Isolere Bio and Univercells Technologies.

  • Represented Oceans Finance Company in its role as project manager to structure, implement and oversee the Government of Ecuador's record USD 1.6 billion debt-for-nature swap, the largest in history.

  • Represented S&P Global on its USD 140 billion merger with IHS Markit.

  • Represented Marel in its acquisition of Wenger Manufacturing, LLC. This deal received an Honorable Mention in Mergers & Acquisitions' 2023 Mid-Market Deals of the Year Awards.

  • Represented Universal Entertainment Corporation, Okada Manila's parent company, on a USD 2.6 Billion de-SPAC merger with 26 Capital Acquisition Corp.

  • Represented FedEx in its acquisition of e-commerce platform, ShopRunner, Inc.

  • Represented volleyball league in its acquisition of multiple volleyball clubs in the United States.

  • Represented Swiss-based family office in its investments in SpaceX and an American battery recycling company.

  • Represented Japanese fitness company in its bid for Gold's Gym out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Admissions

  • District of Columbia~United States (2023)
  • New York~United States (2010)

Education

  • Tulane University Law School (JD) (2009)
  • University of Texas at Austin (BA) (1999)

Languages

  • English

Previous Offices

  • Washington, DC
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