Bio

Richard Holbrook is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Corporate and Financial Services Groups. Mr. Holbrook represents financial institutions, start-ups, high-tech companies, government contractors and other corporations on mergers and acquisitions, financings/investments, joint ventures, and other complex corporate transactions. Mr. Holbrook has extensive experience with the formation of and investments into investment funds (representing both sponsors and limited partners) and a wide variety of commercial and corporate agreements, including joint venture agreements, IT-related services agreements, supply agreements and trademark licenses. Mr. Holbrook also advises on matters relating to commodity futures law. Mr. Holbrook has also served as the in-house general counsel and chief legal officer for an international digital asset company. AsiaLaw recognized Mr. Holbrook as a leading lawyer in Japan for M&A and Corporate Finance in AsiaLaw's Leading Lawyers 2003. From 1998 until 2004, Mr. Holbrook was an associate at another international AmLaw 50 firm, where he spent more than three years in their Tokyo, Japan office. Prior to that, Mr. Holbrook clerked for the Honorable Emilio M. Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1997 to 1998. Mr. Holbrook is proficient in oral and written Japanese. He has lived and worked in Asia (Japan and Singapore) for approximately seven years.