Brad Meissen

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BRAD MEISSEN represents private equity sponsors in connection with their organization, operations, management, capital raises, portfolio investments, and other strategic transactions. Brad has significant experience representing both large, sophisticated global asset management firms and emerging startup managers that operate and invest in different geographies (U.S. and abroad) and raise and deploy capital across multiple private equity asset classes, primarily focused on leveraged buyout, growth equity, venture capital, real estate, secondaries, private credit, and sports.

He has represented sponsors and investors across a number of industries, including energy and natural resources, sports, entertainment and media, airlines, biotechnology, infrastructure, FinTech, aviation, space exploration, healthcare, agriculture, insurance, education, and renewable energy. Brad regularly advises clients in a broad range of complex negotiated transactions, such as seed capital and anchor investor arrangements, targeted sports investment consortiums, joint ventures, co-investments, investment warehousing, single investor funds, special opportunity funds, restructurings, continuation funds, and other GP-led transactions, carried-interest arrangements, spinouts, revenue shares, acquisitions/sales of equity, and other strategic transactions.

Brad is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Air Force Academy Foundation, the endowment of the United States Air Force Academy.

Before entering the private sector, Brad served on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Air Force leading high G-force and high-altitude training programs.