Brian Baloun

Brian’s representative experience includes advising:

Public Company M&A

• Viad Corp, a leading global provider of extraordinary experiences, including attractions, hospitality, exhibition services, and experiential marketing, in its pending US$535 million carve-out sale of its GES business to Truelink Capital
• Funding Circle Holdings, a small business lender, in the US$35 million carve-out sale of its US business segment to iBusiness Funding, LLC
• Hersha Hospitality Trust, an owner of luxury and lifestyle hotels in coastal gateway and resort markets, in its US$1.4 billion take-private sale to KSL Capital Partners, LLC
• Frequency Therapeutics, Inc., in its all-stock merger with Korro Bio, Inc.
• Bunge Limited, a global agribusiness solutions company, in its pending US$8.2 billion acquisition of Viterra Limited
• Imago BioSciences, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for the treatment of bone marrow diseases, in its US$1.35 billion take-private sale to Merck & Co., Inc.
• Flame Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition entity focused on the energy industry in North America, in its business combination with Sable Offshore Corp.
• ironSource Ltd., a leading business platform that empowers mobile content creators to turn their apps into scalable businesses, in its US$4.4 billion merger with Unity Software, Inc.
• Frontier Airlines in its proposed but terminated US$6.6 billion merger with Spirit Airlines
• Cerner Corporation, a leading provider of digital information services used within hospitals and health systems, in its US$28 billion take-private sale to Oracle
• Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, a global leader in designing and marketing NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices, in its proposed but terminated US$3.8 billion take-private sale to MaxLinear, Inc.

Private Company M&A

• Skydance Media, LLC, a next-generation media and technology leader, in its pending US$28 billion merger with Paramount Global
• Level Access, a leading provider of digital accessibility solutions, in its take-private acquisition of UserWay
• Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, a technology-enabled infrastructure holding company, in its agreement with Google to combine its platform company, OhmConnect, with assets from Google Nest's Renew service business
• Bosch in its acquisition of TSI Semiconductors
• Crown Paper Group, an integrated mill and containerboard operation with a strategic presence in the growing markets of the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, in its sale to Atlas Holdings