Perkins Coie has appointed Christopher J Hagan (pictured) as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice in the Washington DC office with a focus on private equity matters and mergers and acquisitions.
“Chris is a noteworthy inclusion to the firm’s nationally recognised mergers and acquisitions practice because of his exceptional track record working with private equity sponsors,” says Nate Ford, Chair of Perkins Coie’s Private Equity practice. “Chris’s high-level of deal activity includes cross-border transactions across a range of industries including the business services, healthcare, energy, technology and manufacturing sectors. We are delighted to welcome him to the firm.”
Hagan has more than 25 years of experience in the private equity space, where he leads and advises on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, growth equity financings and management incentive structuring, as well as and general corporate law. He focuses on representing middle and lower middle market private equity funds and their portfolio companies in buyout transactions, add-on acquisitions, divestitures and general corporate matters. Hagan also represents private equity investment funds, hedge funds, family offices, fundless sponsors, management teams and institutional investors.
Hagan has worked with nearly 100 fund portfolio companies serving outside general counsel and guiding them in corporate governance, M&A, divestitures, equity and debt financings, restructurings, stockholder agreements, LLC agreements, commercial contracts, venture capital financings, executive compensation and employment arrangements, joint ventures and recapitalivations. Chris earned his JD from Duke University School of Law and received his BA, magna cum laude, from Albion College. Before joining Perkins Coie, Hagan was a partner with Brown Rudnick.
“Chris is a great addition to Perkins Coie’s deep bench of corporate counsel and the firm’s consistently expanding presence in the nation’s capital,” says Bill Malley, Office Managing Partner for Perkins Coie’s Washington, DC office. “Chris is well-respected in East Coast legal and financial circles and has worked with many of the firm’s partners on deals while at his prior firm.”
