Bio

David Brown previously served as co-leader of Alston & Bird’s Corporate Area, which includes its Corporate & Securities, Finance, Financial Services , Health Care, and Real Estate groups. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities matters, with an emphasis on the financial services, real estate, and technology industries. David regularly represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity, debt, and hybrid securities and has extensive experience in complex mergers and acquisitions, particularly transactions coupled with strategic relationships between the parties. David has advised clients on hundreds of M&A transactions with an aggregate deal value exceeding $110 billion and securities transactions with a value exceeding $70 billion. David has been selected to The Best Lawyers in America® for his corporate governance, corporate, merger and acquisition, and securities/capital markets work since 2001 and recognized in the Guide to the World’s Leading Corporate Governance Lawyers. He is a frequent speaker and author of publications on securities regulation, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic alliances issues.