Brian Parness

Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Speaker

Brian Parness is a partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice and a leader of Weil’s Secondary Transactions and Sponsor Solutions practice. Brian advises clients on a wide range of corporate transactions, including GP-led secondary transactions, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and minority investments. Brian has broad experience counseling alternative investment management firms on transactions and other matters of strategic importance and is a frequent author and speaker on topics affecting the private equity and alternative asset management industry.

Brian was recently named a 2024 “Rising Star” for Private Equity by Law360 and is included in Lawdragon's “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” and the 2024 “Next Generation” lists. He has been recommended for M&A/Corporate and Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts by Legal 500 US, recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” for Private Equity in the U.S. by IFLR1000 and was named to the 2021 “40 Under 40: Future Leaders of Private Equity” list by Private Equity International, where he was only one of just four honorees from leading law firms recognized. Brian was also named a 2022 “Emerging Leader” by The M&A Advisor and a 2022 “Rising Star” for M&A by Expert Guides. Brian was named a 2020 Secondaries “Next Generation Leader” by Secondaries Investor, where clients note he is “…a star and would not consider a transaction without him as counsel.”

Prior to joining Weil, Brian spent over six years at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for executing strategic M&A on behalf of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and advised multiple business units (Secondaries, GP-stakes and growth equity) on investing activities and private fund matters.