Background
More than 25 years of deal experience handling bet-the-company transactions. Six years serving as Managing Partner and CEO of an AmLaw 200 firm. Strategic advisor to business executives and boards of directors.
Adam Agron possesses the powerful combination of first-hand experience running a business and a noteworthy track record advising C-level executives and boards of directors on legal, business and policy matters. He advises private equity firms, public and private companies and entrepreneurs through mergers and acquisitions, control and minority investments, equity and debt financings, leveraged and management buy-outs, fund formation, recapitalizations, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. Adam’s experience spans numerous industries, including business and financial services, technology, media, sports, entertainment, consumer products, travel, real estate, aerospace, manufacturing and health care, among others. He also works on select, high-stakes government affairs matters for his clients in conjunction with the firm’s top-rated Washington, DC lobbying practice.
As Brownstein’s Managing Partner and CEO from 2013-2019, Adam spearheaded the firm’s strategic direction and oversaw all operations, achieving record growth and performance for the firm.
Passionate about giving back and sharing his expertise, Adam is a board member and senior advisor to non-profits, business organizations, elected officials and political campaigns on matters involving law, business and policy. He has served as an adjunct professor of corporate law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Prior to attending law school Adam worked on some of the largest, most complicated transactions in the country as a member of the mergers and acquisitions group at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen Katz in New York.
Representative Matters
- Represent Apollo Global Management, an alternative asset management firm based in New York, in connection with numerous investments on behalf of its private equity and hybrid value funds as well as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures on behalf of its portfolio companies.
- Represent Clarion Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, in numerous portfolio company acquisitions, dispositions and add-ons.
- Represent Bow River Capital, a Denver-based private equity firm, in connection with its acquisitions, joint ventures and formations of multiple funds as well as corporate and governance matters.
- Represent Rallyday Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, in connection with numerous platform acquisitions, equity and debt financings, dispositions and portfolio company add-ons.
- Represent KSL Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, on various corporate, mergers and acquisitions and government affairs matters.
- Represent Evermore Partners, a Denver-based real estate private equity firm, in the formation of its fund and ongoing investments and equity capital raises.
Insights & Publications
Insights & Publications
News
News
Credentials
Education
- J.D., 1998, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, with highest honors and Editor of the Law Review
- B.A., 1994, University of Colorado at Boulder
- 1993, London School of Economics
Admissions
- Colorado
Memberships
American Bar Association
Colorado Bar Association
Denver Bar Association
Community Involvement
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Board of Trustees, University of Denver
Board of Directors and Vice Chair, Colorado Concern
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Denver Police Foundation
Campaign Committee Vice Chair, National Western Complex Redevelopment
Dean’s Advisory Board, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Board of Trustees, Kent Denver School
U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper Finance Committee
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet Finance Committee
Phil Weiser for Governor of Colorado Finance Committee
Recognition
AWARDS
“The best attorney I have ever worked with. He’s knowledgeable, efficient and rational.” “He’s a strong, thoughtful and brilliant leader. He is able to diagnose problems and come up with commercially viable solutions.” – Chambers USA
“He is perhaps the best MA lawyer I have ever worked with.” – Chambers USA
5280 Top Lawyers, 2024-2026
DU Law Stars, Robert H. McWilliams Jr. Alumni Professionalism Award, 2017
The Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2026
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law Lawyer of the Year, Denver, 2026
Chambers USA, 2010-2025
Colorado Super Lawyers, 2012-2025
Law Week Colorado’s Barrister’s Best “Best Mergers Acquisitions Lawyer”, 2015
Kal Zeff Business Leader of the Year Award 2015, Jewish Family Service of Colorado
Colorado Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2009-2011
Colorado Statesman’s 50 For the Future, 2007
Denver Business Journal’s Forty Under 40, 2004
Leadership Denver, Class of 2002
