Brittany D. Ruiz

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:

• Direct listings
• Initial public offerings
• High yield debt offerings
• Public and private equity offerings
• Tender offers and consent solicitations
• Bridge lending and loan commitments
• Cross-border transactions
• Debt exchange offers
• Formation issues
• Corporate governance matters

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.