Brent Trame

Brent Trame helps companies navigate the complexities of mergers, acquisitions, financings and other significant corporate transactions from initial negotiation through execution and closing.

Brent guides clients—ranging from early-stage companies and family-owned businesses to large, serial acquirers—through the negotiation, structuring and implementation of strategic relationships, including joint ventures. Clients hail from a wide range of industries, including information technology and management consulting, healthcare, manufacturing, venture capital and private equity.

On the buy side, Brent especially enjoys working with public companies over the long term, serving as trusted counsel as they continue to grow through strategic acquisitions. On the sell-side, he considers it a true privilege to help clients reap the rewards, by transitioning ownership after a lifetime of hard work. Clients on both sides appreciate Brent’s practical business approach, which helps them to understand and appropriately avoid and allocate risks, without impeding progress.

As the regulatory environment around public companies grows more complicated by the day, Brent also provides sophisticated counsel with respect to SEC reporting matters, governance trends, exchange listing requirements, disclosure issues, risk management, and general corporate matters in a regulatory and business environment subject to rapid and significant change. The M&A and corporate reporting prongs of his business enrich and inform each other, resulting in maximum impact and value for clients.

University of Illinois College of Law

J.D.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

B.S.