Overview
Bryan Beck is a corporate attorney who represents publicly and privately held companies and owners. He focuses his practice in the following areas:
- Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and private equity transactions
- Joint ventures
- Senior and subordinated debt financings
- Growth equity and capital raising
- Corporate governance and securities law matters
- Commercial business transactions
- Business succession planning
- Other general corporate matters
Services
Practice Areas
Experience
Representative Matters
- Advised manufacturing client in the sale of its plastic injection-molded components business to a private equity acquirer
- Advised private equity client in the purchase of a majority stake in a media publishing business
- Advised owners of a tooling business in the sale to a private equity acquirer
- Advised small manufacturing business owners in their business succession planning
- Advised U.S. subsidiary of a foreign technology company in a joint venture arrangement
- Advised industrial company in its senior secured credit facility and term loan
- Advised private equity fund in its formation
- Advised medical supplier in its convertible preferred stock financing
- Advised growth equity fund in its purchase of preferred stock of a technology company
- Served as an investment banking director in the mergers and acquisitions advisory group for Germany-based Commerzbank, AG in its New York City offices:
- Led the North American client cross-border merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities
- Provided clients with complex capital formation strategies, utilizing a broad spectrum of capital markets products
- Developed financial, operational, and tactical components of long-term strategic plans for clients
- Provided clients with comprehensive business valuation analysis in the context of both buy-side and sell-side engagements
Prior Experience
- Commerzbank, AG, Director, 2010-2014; Vice President, 2009-2010
- Dresdner Kleinwort, LLC, Senior Associate, 2007-2009
Credentials
Education
Michigan State University College of Law, J.D.
- Jurisprudence Achievement Award in Torts I; Best Brief Competition Finalist
- Michigan State Law Review, Associate Editor
Michigan State University, M.B.A.
- Finance concentration
- Eli Broad MBA Community Honors Award for "Top Team in Class"
- MBA Finance Association, Treasurer
University of Michigan, B.S.
- Study abroad at La Villa Corsi-Salviati, Florence, Italy
Admissions
- Michigan
Recognition
Awards
Michigan Super Lawyers, Recognized as a Rising Star, 2017
The Best Lawyers in America, 2023
- Recognized in practice area of Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Professional & Community Involvement
State Bar of Michigan
Kalamazoo Optimist Hockey Association (KOHA)
- Board of Directors, 2021-2023
- Youth hockey coach, 2015-present
The Gull Lake Quality Organization
- Board of Directors, 2015-2020
Big Brothers Big Sisters, Kalamazoo
- Big Brother Volunteer, 2015-2020