Jeffrey Brill

Jeffrey Brill serves as co-head of the firm's global Financial Institutions Group and co-head of the M&A Group in New York. He leads Skadden’s global Fintech practice, which repeatedly has been named a Law360 FinTech Practice Group of the Year (2020, 2023-2025).

Mr. Brill has represented public and private clients in a broad variety of U.S. and international transactions, including negotiated and contested acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, auctions, carve-outs, strategic investments, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, partnerships, and other corporate and commercial transactions. He also represents clients in connection with various corporate matters, financings and corporate governance.

Member, Board of Directors, National Academy Foundation; Former member, Law360’s M&A Editorial Advisory Board.

Mr. Brill serves on Skadden’s Policy Committee, its top governing body. He also is the co-coordinator of the firm’s global alumni program.

In recognition of his work, Mr. Brill has been ranked repeatedly in Chambers, where clients describe him as an “incredible lawyer” with a “keen sense for spotting, and more importantly, resolving even the most difficult issues,” as well as The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000. In addition, he has been named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America (2024, 2025); a 2023 Dealmaker by MergerLinks and a 2022 Fintech MVP by Law360. He has been selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Legal: Fintech & Blockchain and named one of the best blockchain lawyers by Identity Review, a global technology think tank, and previously honored by Investment Dealers’ Digest as one of the Forty Under Forty top dealmakers in the country, one of only six attorneys to receive such recognition.

Cornell Law School

J.D. (Managing Editor, Cornell Law Review)

1998

Colgate University

B.A. (magna cum laude)

1993