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Brooks B. Gruemmer is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. He has a broad range of transactional and business counseling experience, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, joint ventures and the related financing required to fund such transactions.
Brooks brings a unique perspective to private practice having spent approximately four years as Vice President of Administration and General Counsel of Favorite Brands International, Inc., the fourth largest manufacturer of confectionery products in the United States. While at Favorite Brands, Brooks was a member of the executive committee and oversaw numerous acquisitions, financings that raised over $1 billion and the eventual sale of the Company to Nabisco.
Brooks has experience in a wide range of transactions, business ventures and general corporate matters and regularly represents a number of private equity funds in leveraged acquisitions and recapitalizations. He also represents a number of privately held and publicly traded corporations in connection with a variety of corporate matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, financings, securities law disclosure and compliance matters and executive compensation. In several of these instances, Brooks serves as the client’s general outside counsel. In recent years he has spent a considerable amount of time advising acquirers of financially distressed companies, both inside and outside of bankruptcy, and lenders and debtors in connection with debt restructurings and related financings.
Brooks was named to the 2007 BTI Client Service All-Star Team, a select group of 113 attorneys who are singled out for delivering outstanding client service.
Brooks is admitted to the bar in the State of Illinois and is a member of the American and Illinois Bar Associations.
Education:
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (cum laude and Order of the Coif), 1990
University of Notre Dame, B.B.A. (with highest honors), 1987 | 