Bio

As Co-Chair of Calfee's Corporate and Finance practice group and a Leader of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions group and the Wealth Management group, Brent Pietrafese has a broad practice centering on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, and general corporate representation of both public and private companies. Brent 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 joined Calfee in 2003, and he was elected Partner in 2012. He began serving as Vice Chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group in 2022 and was named Co-Chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group in 2023.