Bio

Brent Pietrafese helps clients consummate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, and restructurings for a wide range of companies and industries. He has developed particular expertise in representing private equity firms, family offices and other financial investors in leveraged buyouts, investments and dispositions. Brent's experience with private equity firms, family offices and investment funds helps him assist clients in capital formation matters, including venture and mezzanine capital and other private equity financing matters. In addition, Brent provides day-to-day general corporate counseling to his clients and has extensive experience counseling clients on complex contract law matters, distributor and sales agent agreements, sales and purchasing contracts, and related terms and conditions of sale and purchase. Brent has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA in Band 4, Ohio: North (2024). Chambers USA researchers commented, "Brent is extremely strong, aware, balanced, and has good business acumen to supplement legal knowledge." Brent joined Calfee in 2003, and he was elected Partner in 2012. He served as Vice Chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group (2022) and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group (2023-present).