Brad Brown

Brad Brown is member of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Brad Brown’s practice focuses on executive compensation and benefits matters.

He advises clients on the design and negotiation of executive compensation agreements and arrangements; the executive compensation and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including the design, taxation and implementation of employee equity and equity-based compensation and incentive arrangements; annual and periodic compensation disclosure obligations; corporate governance issues relating to compensation matters; and private equity compensation and governance matters at both the upper tier and portfolio company levels.

EXPERIENCE:

• General Mills in its $8 billion acquisition of Blue Buffalo Pet Products.
• Warburg Pincus and its portfolio companies on a variety of transactions, including its acquisition of Duravant.
• Duravant in its $176 million tender offer to acquire Key Technology.
• GrafTech International Ltd. in its initial public offering.
• TPG Sixth Street Partners in carry and co-investment arrangements.

EDUCATION:

• New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, 2014
• University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 2013
• Erskine College, B.A., 2006