Brett Walter

Brett Walter is counsel to the firm with a focus on international corporate, restructuring and transactional matters.  He has acted as lead counsel in dozens of acquisitions and sales of a range of assets in the United States, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia and Egypt, including manufacturing, soft drink bottling, industrial servicing, pipeline, consumer goods distribution, and gas related assets.  He also has led the structuring and advising on numerous cross-border joint venture, cooperation, and franchise, and other commercial agreements relating to a variety of businesses including shipping and logistics, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, and food production and sales.  He led the legal team and was a primary drafter of one of the largest financial restructurings in the history of the Middle East.  Mr. Walter regularly helps clients solve unique and difficult specialty situations, such as bespoke asset and corporate structuring/restructuring, company formation, agreements for prominent celebrity services, complex partnerships, settlement and termination of distressed businesses, and other highly confidential and often personal business matters.       

Mr. Walter’s experience includes 10 years as General Counsel for a large Middle Eastern holding company where he managed the company’s legal function, supervised mergers, acquisitions, and legal side of investments, and advised the Board and executive management on a wide variety of strategic and governance matters.  His years of wide-ranging and varied domestic and international experience have given him a deep appreciation of the complex interplay between the initial structuring of a corporate transaction and its effective implementation.   His clients benefit from his understanding not only of the differences in the laws between countries but also the myriad cultural and practical distinctions that are critical to successful problem solving. 

• General Counsel, Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi & Bros. (Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia)
• Associate then Partner, Lewis Baach PLLC
• Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP

• Lead counsel on $160 million asset sale to partner in multinational consumer goods manufacturing business
• Lead counsel on $50 million asset sale of bottling plant
• Lead counsel on joint venture agreement with international partner in pipeline manufacturing and service business
• Lead counsel on sale of $55 million gas production asset
• Lead counsel on cross-border joint venture agreement involving pipeline manufacturing and services business
• Lead counsel on multimillion-dollar investment in artificial intelligence start up
• Lead counsel on global asset structuring for multiple private clients
• Lead counsel on multimillion-dollar investment in gaming start up
• Lead counsel on multimillion-dollar restaurant franchise investment
• Lead counsel on termination of multinational partnership in a tire distribution business
• Lead counsel on multiple international restaurant franchise agreements
• Lead counsel on multiple service and logistics agreements for shipping and logistics client with multinational customers
• Managed 24 private multinational arbitrations with aggregate claim value of $1.1 billion

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