Partner
Brittany Ruiz handles prominent equity and debt capital markets transactions on behalf of globally recognized brands, major investment banks, and private equity firms. She advises on matters involving a range of industries, with a particular focus on the technology, consumer retail, and healthcare sectors.
Her transactional work includes advising on:
Taking a process-driven approach to each matter, Brittany empowers clients to achieve their commercial objectives. Her experience and educational background working at a large accounting firm allows her to understand the financial issues that may arise at every phase of a transaction.
She is a board member of Claremont McKenna College’s Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a member of the Hispanic Lawyers Group in New York and Los Angeles. She previously worked in the firm’s London office.
Brittany helped pioneer direct listings in the groundbreaking Spotify transaction in 2018. She has co-authored numerous articles on direct listings, including a case study on Spotify’s direct listing. She also contributed to the chapters on direct listings and IPOs in the most recent edition of Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, a best-selling book on deal-making and definitive resource for investment banks, private equity, investment firms, and corporations.
Brittany has represented sponsors, issuers, direct lenders, and underwriters in numerous debt and equity offerings across various industries, including IPOs, direct listings, and high yield offerings. Select issuers and sponsors include:
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.
Firm honored for steering record-breaking and innovative transactions and general excellence.
Law360 honors lawyers under age 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
