Bio

Martin Ruhaak has built an impressive reputation in the private equity industry for tackling complexities and designing deal structures that help clients optimize value and strategic opportunities. Clients value Marty’s sophisticated understanding of how to navigate the issues facing private equity firms and their portfolio companies, as demonstrated by his many deep-rooted client relationships that extend to multiple deals in diverse industries. He has a unique ability to assist private equity investors throughout the life cycle of an investment, navigating business, regulatory and transactional issues in volatile markets. Marty complements wide-ranging transactional knowledge with a keen understanding of the objectives and risks associated with his clients’ target industries, enabling him to serve as both a strategic and transactional advisor. He leads legal teams across numerous key industries, including health care, life sciences and pharma, technology, business services, insurance, financial services, asset management, retail and consumer products, government contracts, and energy. Marty’s experience encompasses the full range of strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financings, restructurings, recapitalizations, continuation vehicles and GP-led transactions. In addition to private equity firms, his clients include leading public companies, family offices, institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals and mezzanine equity/debt funds, and public and private companies. Marty is recognized by The Legal 500—the world’s largest legal referral guide—as a go-to attorney for “M&A/Corporate and Commercial – Private Equity Buyouts, and, in 2022, was recognized by Law360 as a Rising Star in Private Equity.