Bruce Engler focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions. 

Mergers and Acquisitions

Bruce has represented buyers, sellers and institutional investors in many different types of public and private M&A transactions. He has been lead counsel representing strategic and private equity clients in scores of significant M&A transactions with aggregate deal values totaling billions of dollars. Chambers USA has described Bruce as "the 'cream of the crop' among M&A lawyers" and "pragmatic and reasonable" and has ranked him as one of only four Band 1 attorneys in Minnesota in the corporate/M&A area. Bruce has been quoted frequently in the media on M&A topics.

Private Equity M&A

For more than 25 years, Bruce has represented private equity investors in the purchase, sale, refinancing and restructuring of their portfolio companies. Bruce has accumulated extensive experience dealing with the many complex structuring, financing, securities and tax issues that arise in these portfolio company transactions.

General Corporate Representation

In addition to his transactional work for clients, Bruce is general corporate counsel for many companies. In that capacity, Bruce works with clients to address their full range of legal needs.

Interview on CNBC

Bruce was featured on the CNBC Power Lunch segment "Banks Balk on Bad Buyouts," Bruce was asked to comment on current turmoil in the debt markets. He discussed its effects on pending private equity M&A deals—including impact on private equity firm sponsors and the lenders who agreed to finance the deals.