Mr Lawrence Braun > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
333 SOUTH HOPE STREET
FORTY-THIRD FLOOR
LOS ANGELES, CA 90071
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Work Department

Corporate and Securities

Position

Larry Braun is the former Leader of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. In addition to his law degree, Larry holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and has attained the New Jersey C.P.A. Certificate Requirements. He was previously a managing director of the largest private investment banking firm on the west coast. Larry is resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office, where he represents public and private companies in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities and general business.

Larry is an advisor to clients ranging from family-owned businesses to multi-national corporations in many diverse industries such as high-tech and computers, healthcare, consumer goods, aerospace and defense and grocery and food service. His principal areas of practice consist of general corporate law, corporate finance and securities law, mergers and acquisition transactions, contractual matters (including licensing and distribution arrangements), healthcare transactions and general business counseling.

Education

J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, 1981

M.B.A., Northwestern University, 1981

A.B., Rutgers College, 1977

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)

Fielding a team that is ‘hyper-focused on achieving solutions’, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP assists entrepreneurs, private equity investors, venture capital funds and strategic clients with a range of buy- and sell-side transactional work encompassing acquisitions, divestitures and mergers and both multistate and multijurisdictional mandates. Sectors in which the practice has expertise include aerospace, retail and consumer products. In San Diego, healthcare specialist Jeralin Cardoso and capital markets expert John Tishler oversee the firm’s offering alongside the New York-based venture capital specialist John Hempill. In the firm’s Los Angeles office, Lawrence Braun‘s portfolio of work includes deals for healthcare and food service clients, David Sands handles transactions in the in the media, entertainment and technologies industries, and Zachary Turke is well acquainted with the cannabis and beauty sectors.