Global Co-Chair of the Tax Department, Brad Okun focuses his practice on the complex tax law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and corporate finance. He also has experience advising limited liability companies and partnerships, as well as cross-border investing.
Brad's representative clients include Apollo Global Management, Rocket Companies, Palladium Equity Partners and Kohlberg & Company.
Brad has been recognized by The Legal 500 for his work in domestic and international tax and has also been named one of the “500 Leading Global Tax Lawyers” by Lawdragon.
Brad’s representations include:
- Apollo Global Management and affiliated funds in several transactions including:
- in its approximately $1.5 billion acquisition of Bridge Investment Group Holdings
- in its $6.3 billion acquisition of IGT Gaming and Everi Holdings
- in its $700 million capital solution to Sony Music Group, an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, for investments in the music industry
- in an investment of $11 billion to acquire from Intel Corporation a 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related to Intel’s Fab 34
- in its $5.2 billion take-private acquisition of Arconic Corporation
- in its $8.1 billion take-private acquisition of Univar Solutions
- in its $7.5 billion acquisition of the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) business of Lumen Technologies in 20 U.S. states to create Brightspeed, the nation’s fifth largest ILEC
- in its $5 billion acquisition of Verizon Media
- in its $43 billion merger with Athene
- in the $6.25 billion acquisition of The Venetian Resort and Sands Expo and Convention Center from Las Vegas Sands Corporation
- and its portfolio company Protection 1, in connection with its acquisition of ADT Corporation for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $15 billion
- Brightspeed, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in its $3.7 billion of new financing and elimination of $1.1 billion of total debt to further invest in its Multi-Gig-Speed Fiber Network and pursue Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (“BEAD”), State and Federal grant funding
- Sun Country Airlines Holdings in its $250.9 million initial public offering
- Yahoo, a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, in its 30-year exclusive commercial agreement with Taboola
- Clear Secure in its $470 million initial public offering
- Kohlberg & Company, alongside Mubadala Investment Company, in its acquisition of a majority stake in PCI Pharma Services from Partners Group
- Palladium Equity Partners in its acquisition of Kymera International from Platinum Equity
- Rocket Companies in its:
- $9.4 billion acquisition of Mr. Cooper Group
- $1.75 billion acquisition of Redfin
- $1.275 billion acquisition of Truebill
- transaction to collapse its Up-C structure and eliminate its high-vote/low-vote structure
- $2 billion IPO
- Searchlight Capital Partners, alongside Rêv Worldwide, in their $1 billion acquisition of the consumer business of Netspend
- Univision Holdings in its $4.8 billion combination with the content and media assets of Grupo Televisa
Brad has lectured frequently on many topics regarding corporate taxation.
