Brian P. Slough is a seasoned practitioner who counsels clients on a range of business and legal matters. His diverse legal practice and business background enable him to holistically service clients. While he often acts as general counsel to assist clients on a variety of governance and operational issues, Brian also advises venture capital, private equity, institutional, and strategic investors on financing, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and portfolio transactions. Additionally, Brian counsels founders, emerging businesses, and other innovative companies at every stage of the lifecycle, from inception through exit.
Brian strategically structures, negotiates, and effectuates complex financing and M&A transactions. Additionally, Brian handles multifaceted corporate reorganizations and implements governance structures for joint ventures and minority ownership investments across a wide variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, and real estate. He also dedicates a fair amount of his practice to pro bono work, advising charitable organizations and small businesses.
Brian understands a client’s business goals and acts as a facilitator of those goals by working closely with senior management, C-suite executives, board members, and major stockholders to further the client’s objectives. Brian’s broad base of corporate knowledge and ability to handle sophisticated business and legal needs—while cultivating an atmosphere of congeniality and collaboration with all parties involved—help ensure that matters are holistically addressed, relationships on all sides are strengthened, and the needs and expectations of all involved parties are met.
Brian has worked in a variety of business and legal roles, which he leverages when advising clients on complicated issues that straddle business and legal areas. He has the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to strategically structure, negotiate, and consummate complex business transactions. When planning and implementing complex corporate structuring and recapitalizations, Brian uses his knowledge of evolving trends affecting market deal terms and his broad base of corporate and business experience to holistically service clients.
He is able to effectively and efficiently manage multiple large teams of lawyers and business professionals across multiple offices and practice areas as well as external legal and business teams to achieve client goals. Brian can proactively anticipate, and provide strategic legal counsel with respect to, opportunities and threats affecting clients and their businesses, which enables them to better accomplish their business objectives.
Brian is an active member of the startup, emerging business, and venture capital communities. He speaks regularly on startup, emerging business, and venture capital topics and serves as a coach and judge at investor and venture fairs and business plan competitions.
GIC
CapitalG
Comcast Ventures
Aramark