Bryan M O'Keefe

Labor Management Relations; Corporate Transactions

Bryan has developed a unique practice representing clients at the intersection of mergers and acquisitions, labor and employment law, transactional risk insurance, and private equity portfolio companies in their legal affairs. Bryan has been the principal labor and employment or transactional risk insurance advisor on over 2,500 corporate transactions. Bryan frequently represents employers as “boots on the ground” for traditional labor law matters, most notably in the hospitality and healthcare industries. Bryan defends employers in grievance and arbitration matters, NLRB unfair labor practice charges and administrative law judge trials, NLRB appellate matters, union organizing and representational elections, collective bargaining, strikes, pickets, and corporate campaigns.

Former Management Co-Chair for Region V of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Practice and Procedure under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and Contributing editor to Developing Labor Law. Bryan is also the co-host of the “Into the Breach” podcast, which is the only podcast covering transactional risk insurance topics.

JD, Dickinson School of Law, The Pennsylvania State University, Summa cum laude; Editor-in-Chief Penn State Law Review; BA, The George Washington University, Summa cum laude