What is Jonathan Brandes's background?
Greenberg Traurig, private equity and M&A group. Represented private equity funds, strategic buyers, and business owners in the purchase and sale of privately held companies. Transactions ranged from $1 million to $100 million, from letter of intent through closing.
Carrier Global, in-house corporate counsel. Corporate and transactional work for a Fortune 500 company on domestic and international matters.
What does he handle at Brandes Law Group?
- Selling a business: sell-side M&A from letter of intent to closing.
- Buying a business: buy-side M&A, including SBA-financed acquisitions.
- Independent sponsor and family office deals: platform and add-on acquisitions.
- Outside general counsel: ongoing legal support on a flat monthly fee.
- Entity formation and structuring, operating agreements, and founder equity.
- Commercial contracts: services, vendor, technology, and executive agreements.
The firm does not handle litigation.
Who does he work with?
Founders, owner-operators, independent sponsors and search fund buyers, family offices, and private equity sponsors buying or selling lower middle-market companies. The attorney you hire is the attorney who does the work.
Where does he practice?
Brandes Law Group is based in Fort Lauderdale and works with clients across Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties and throughout Florida. Meetings are held by video, by phone, or in person in Fort Lauderdale.
Education and bar admission
- J.D., Tulane University Law School
- B.A., magna cum laude, The George Washington University
- Member, The Florida Bar (No. 1024664), admitted as Jonathan N. Brandes
Outside the office
Jonathan trains mixed martial arts, plays guitar, and is rarely far from his French bulldog, Pickle.
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