Alison S Ressler

Practice Areas

M&A and Private Equity

Career

Partner since 1991. Co-head, Global Private Equity Group; Coordinator of California Practice. Leading authority on M&A, corporate governance, capital markets. Provides advice to U.S. and non-U.S. corporations, private equity investors, boards of directors and financial advisers for a wide range of transactions in regulated and unregulated industries. Named American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Week” multiple times and American Lawyer’s “Dealmaker of the Year” for advising Barclays in the sale of Barclays Global Investors to BlackRock. Named to The Deal’s “Women in M&A: The Powerhouse 20” and recognized by the Financial Times as one of the Ten Most Innovative Lawyers in North America and as a Law360 MVP in M&A and Private Equity. Recent Experience: CRC-Aera Energy, CRC-Brookfield JV; AST SpaceMobile-AT&T/Google/Vodafone; OTTPB-SeaCube/Wren House; Wasserman Media Group-Brillstein Entertainment Partners and CSM; Sumitovant Biopharma-Myovant Sciences; DigitalBridge-AMP Capital, DigitalBridge-Wafra, DigitalBridge/Wellness Infrastructure; RedBird Capital-Artists Equity; Verily-Swiss Re-Granular Insurance; VMWare-Broadcom (representing financial adviser); Twitter-Elon Musk (representing financial advisers); Mandiant-Google (representing financial adviser); Shafer Vineyards-Starfield Properties; Raintree Systems-Serent Capital; Saama Technologies-Carlyle/co-investor group; CAM-Stanley Black & Decker; Madrone-eBay-StubHub; Ladenburg Thalmann-Advisor Group; Ares-Macquarie Infrastructure-Cincinnati Bell and Ares-OTPPB-TricorBraun; NVISION-OTPPB; Juniper Networks-Apstra and Mist Systems; Rent-A-Center-Acima; Kite Pharma-Gilead; SPO Partners/Aggregates USA-Vulcan; Unified Grocers-SUPERVALU; Platinum Equity-Key Energy; ATL Investco-Atlanta Hawks.

Personal

Columbia Law (JD, 1983); Brown (BA, 1980)

Co-chair of the Dean’s Council, Columbia Law School. Board Member, LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Member, Corporation of Brown University. Trustee, Harvard-Westlake School.