Bio

Howard Glazer is a senior partner in Ropes & Gray's private equity practice and the managing partner of the Los Angeles office. Howard has broad transactional experience and has built a practice focused on providing pragmatic advice in connection with structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations, preferred equity investments, workouts and restructurings. Howard represents private equity sponsors such as Altamont Capital Partners, GI Partners, Genstar Capital, TPG Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Howard worked in the Creditors' Rights department of a major New York law firm, where his experience ranged from representing a Creditors Committee in a contested multibillion-dollar Chapter 11 proceeding to representing financial institutions and distressed companies in workouts and restructurings.