Brian Hoffmann serves as trusted Legal Advisor of Worl Precision, where he provides deep expertise across the aerospace & defense precision machining platform. He focuses in complex transactions, aligned negotiations, high-stakes mergers & acquisitions, and corporate governance.
He has held senior leadership roles at top-tier global law firms as a corporate transactional lawyer, including Head of M&A Affinity Group at McDermott, Will & Emery, Co-Head of M&A for the Americas at Clifford Chance, and partner positions at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. His career spans decades of executing high-value, high-complexity corporate transactions and shaping M&A platforms with strategic oversight and operational precision.
Brian has led complex billion dollar transactions totaling $150B-$300B in transactions, including public and private acquisitions, management and leveraged buyouts, SPAC conversions, and pre-pack bankruptcy sales.
Representative matters include:
- Represented Mastercard in negotiating an exclusive branding agreement with Citigroup
- Represented Zais Group Holdings in its going private transaction
- Represented a private equity investment group in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
- Represented one of the world’s leading companies in the health care and medical products industry with its acquisition of Sagmel, Inc., and an unsuccessful acquisition of a multibillion-dollar consumer health business
- Represented a Fortune 500 technology company in the financial payments industry with its acquisition of a mobile technology company
- Advised a mobile communications company in two public merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, one private M&A transaction (with aggregate values of over $20 billion) and several securities offerings, including $100 million in Senior Subordinated Discount Notes to AT&T Wireless, $450 million in Senior Subordinated Notes, and $210 million in Senior Subordinated Discount Notes to Lucent Technologies
- Represented an investment bank in its acquisition of a majority of equity of Orion Refining Corporation and a subsequent pre-arranged 363 sale in bankruptcy
- Represented Lenovo in its acquisition of IBM’S personal computer business
- Represented NRDC Acquisition Corp. in its conversion from a SPAC to a REIT
- Represented PIRA Energy Group in its sale to S&P Global Platts
- Represented Terra Firma in its acquisition of Pegasus Aviation Finance Co.
- Represented Lady Luck in its IPO
- Represented Popeyes in its takeover of Church’s Fried Chicken
- Represented Southland in its going-private transaction and subsequent pre-pack bankruptcy
- Represented Peoples Jewelers in its takeover of Zale Jewelers and Zale in its subsequent takeover of Gordon’s Jewelers
He earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Arts from Colby College.
Recognition: Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Super Lawyers, PLC Which Lawyer?, and Who’s Who Legal