Brian Boch focuses his practice primarily in the areas of capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, and corporate governance. Brian’s capital markets practice includes IPOs and other public stock offerings, public debt offerings, exchange offers, and private placements. His M&A practice includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, going-private transactions, joint ventures, and other complex business transactions. His securities compliance and corporate governance practices include Exchange Act reporting, board fiduciary duty counseling, and corporate control matters. Brian serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Securities and Capital Markets Practice.
Brian represents clients in a wide range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, cybersecurity, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, real estate, shipbuilding and repair, and telecommunications.
He serves as a member of the firm's Associate Development and Evaluation Committee and Opinion Letter Committee.
I thrive on assisting my clients in complex transactions and other business matters. I help navigate them through their deals with a laser focus on achieving outcomes and solutions important to them and simplifying the process for them.
Representative Matters
Capital Markets Engagements Include Representing:
- General Dynamics in numerous public debt offerings ranging in size from $750 million to $7.5 billion.
- General Motors in numerous high-profile securities offerings, including GM’s $23.1 billion IPO, multiple public debt offerings ranging in size from $2.5 to $4.5 billion, and multiple public secondary offerings of GM common stock by the U.S. Treasury and the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust.
- KEMET Corporation in a $173 million public secondary offering of KEMET common stock by Platinum Equity, LLC.
- CBOT Holdings (holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade) in its $198 million IPO.
Mergers & Acquisitions Engagements Include Representing:
- Distribution Solutions Group, Inc. in its $500 million acquisition of two companies in concurrent all-stock merger transactions.
- Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. in its agreement to sell itself to Lockheed Martin in a $5 billion all-cash merger transaction, which was subsequently terminated due to antitrust regulatory hurdles.
- General Dynamics in numerous acquisition and divestiture transactions ranging in size from $20 million to $1 billion.
- General Motors in the sale of substantially all of its assets in a $50+ billion transaction to a newly formed entity sponsored by the U.S. Treasury in connection with GM’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
- Merge Healthcare Incorporated in its $1 billion sale to IBM in an all-cash merger transaction.
- Equity Group Investments in an $8.2 billion going-private transaction involving Tribune Company.
- Grubb & Ellis Company in the sale of its Daymark Realty Advisors tenant-in-common business unit.
Credentials
Service / Recognition
Overview
Brian Boch focuses his practice primarily in the areas of capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities compliance, and corporate governance. Brian’s capital markets practice includes IPOs and other public stock offerings, public debt offerings, exchange offers, and private placements. His M&A practice includes mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, going-private transactions, joint ventures, and other complex business transactions. His securities compliance and corporate governance practices include Exchange Act reporting, board fiduciary duty counseling, and corporate control matters. Brian serves as Co-Chair of the firm's Securities and Capital Markets Practice.
Brian represents clients in a wide range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, cybersecurity, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, real estate, shipbuilding and repair, and telecommunications.
He serves as a member of the firm's Associate Development and Evaluation Committee and Opinion Letter Committee.
I thrive on assisting my clients in complex transactions and other business matters. I help navigate them through their deals with a laser focus on achieving outcomes and solutions important to them and simplifying the process for them.
Areas of Focus
Representative Matters
Capital Markets Engagements Include Representing:
- General Dynamics in numerous public debt offerings ranging in size from $750 million to $7.5 billion.
- General Motors in numerous high-profile securities offerings, including GM’s $23.1 billion IPO, multiple public debt offerings ranging in size from $2.5 to $4.5 billion, and multiple public secondary offerings of GM common stock by the U.S. Treasury and the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust.
- KEMET Corporation in a $173 million public secondary offering of KEMET common stock by Platinum Equity, LLC.
- CBOT Holdings (holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade) in its $198 million IPO.
Mergers & Acquisitions Engagements Include Representing:
- Distribution Solutions Group, Inc. in its $500 million acquisition of two companies in concurrent all-stock merger transactions.
- Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. in its agreement to sell itself to Lockheed Martin in a $5 billion all-cash merger transaction, which was subsequently terminated due to antitrust regulatory hurdles.
- General Dynamics in numerous acquisition and divestiture transactions ranging in size from $20 million to $1 billion.
- General Motors in the sale of substantially all of its assets in a $50+ billion transaction to a newly formed entity sponsored by the U.S. Treasury in connection with GM’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.
- Merge Healthcare Incorporated in its $1 billion sale to IBM in an all-cash merger transaction.
- Equity Group Investments in an $8.2 billion going-private transaction involving Tribune Company.
- Grubb & Ellis Company in the sale of its Daymark Realty Advisors tenant-in-common business unit.
Credentials
Admissions
- Illinois, 1995
Education
- Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, JD, cum laude; Order of the Coif, 1995
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, summa cum laude; University Honors (Bronze Tablet); Phi Beta Kappa, Finance, 1992
Service / Recognition
Service to the Bar
- American Bar Association