Ropes & Gray announced that Michael (Mike) Brueck will join the firm as an M&A partner in the New York office, further enhancing the firm’s premier M&A capabilities and advancing its strategic growth in real estate and infrastructure transactions.
Mike represents buyers, sellers, and boards of directors in complex public and private M&A transactions across a variety of industries, as well as in corporate governance and activism defense matters. He also has extensive experience working with public companies and private equity clients on their most important real estate and infrastructure M&A transactions.
“We’re committed to bringing in the best—people who know our clients’ industries inside and out,” said Julie Jones, Chair. “Mike is a standout dealmaker with a track record of advising sophisticated clients on their most consequential transactions. His arrival is a major step forward as we grow our market-leading M&A practice in New York and beyond.”
“Mike stands out for guiding clients to stellar results in complex, high-stakes transactions,” said Chris Comeau, Partner and head of the firm’s M&A practice. “As we steer our clients through the complexity of the current deal environment, Mike is a leader who will continue driving our momentum in key strategic areas for our firm.”
“Mike has an unmatched track record advising on high profile, top-of-the-market real estate and infrastructure transactions,” said Jack Creedon, Real Estate Partner and Global Co-head of Ropes & Gray’s real estate investments and transactions group and infrastructure industry group. “His knowledge, network, commercial mindset and collaborative instincts will strengthen the firm’s position in these key areas of focus in New York and around the world.”
“I am proud and excited to join Ropes & Gray’s world-class M&A team in New York,” Mike Brueck said. “Ropes is a firm that I have long admired, with a reputation for client service that is unparalleled. The continued expansion of the firm’s New York office presents a perfect opportunity to grow my practice and work with some of the industry’s most accomplished and collegial attorneys. They share a common drive to consistently deliver the highest caliber of legal advice to the market’s most sophisticated clients.”
Mike is one of several partners who has recently joined the firm’s New York office. Ropes & Gray now has more than 500 lawyers in New York, more than double the count from a decade ago.
