Brian McKenna provides sophisticated transactional counseling to public and private companies, private equity and venture capital investors, financial institutions, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds on a global basis.

Brian’s practice emphasizes M&A and investment transactions, from public and private M&A to private equity-driven leveraged buyouts, add-ons, secondaries, and co-investment transactions. Over the course of his career, he has advised many market-leading sponsors, including Apollo Global Management, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, D.E. Shaw, HarbourVest, One Equity Partners, Palladium Equity Partners, Raine, Stone Point Capital and Temasek, among others, on investments and portfolio company matters in a range of sectors, including financial services, technology, media, industrials and industrial technology, and agriculture. He is well-versed in cross-border transactions, having spent several years resident in Hong Kong leading significant deals across Asia and Europe.

He is especially fluent in the financial services industry, drawing on substantial experience advising regulated incumbent financial institutions, high-growth companies, and sector-focused investors across specialty finance, insurance and insurance services, marketplace lending and loan origination platforms, wealth management and registered investment advisors, consumer reporting, payments, and strategic investments by regulated depositories. And he has been immersed in fintech issues for more than a decade, counseling established financial services firms and disruptive innovators alike.

Brian’s professional background includes serving as outside general counsel for a publicly traded company, including through a merger with a financial technology company. This experience informs Brian’s practical, wide-lens approach to problem-solving, ability to distill complex issues, and solutions-oriented support of in-house clients.