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Mr. Braker, who is joining the Firm’s Business Department as of counsel in April, 2008, has extensive experience counseling clients in a broad array of corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private placements, public securities offerings, secured financing transactions, strategic partnering and technology licensing arrangements. He also has substantial experience with a wide range of general corporate issues, including counseling officers and directors, and negotiating executive compensation arrangements.
Mr. Braker has advised individuals, corporations, venture capital funds, financial institutions and other entities in a wide variety of industries and businesses, including technology, food producers, telecommunications, promotion and marketing, and manufacturing. His representation has extended from start-ups and early round financings through initial public offerings and acquisitions.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Braker began his legal career at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco, before moving to Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles. Mr. Braker started his own practice, and later founded Olsen Kim & Braker LLP, in 2003 in order to better serve the needs of emerging and growing companies. Prior to that, Mr. Braker was of counsel in the corporate finance department of Morrison & Foerster’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Braker is a past Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association and his published articles include, most recently, an article appearing in the first 2008 issue of the Business Law News published by the State Bar of California Business Law Section.
EDUCATION
Mr. Braker received his J.D., cum laude, in 1988 from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy in the same year from the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He served as Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. Mr. Braker attended the London School of Economics before graduating from Columbia College
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