Background
More than 20 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.
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. He leads private equity firms, public and private companies and entrepreneurs through mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, leveraged and management buy-outs, fund formation, recapitalizations and joint ventures. Adam regularly advises Apollo Global Management, Bow River Capital, Clarion Capital Partners, Rallyday Partners, Vail Resorts and Viking Cruises. 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 success for the firm.
The ability to view a problem through both a legal and business lens makes Adam an asset in the boardroom and with executives. Whether articulating the impact of a legal strategy on a company’s bottom line or advising on high-stakes business decisions, he provides his clients with the insight and experience needed to get deals done.
Passionate about giving back and sharing his expertise, Adam is a board member and senior advisor to non-profits, elected officials and political campaigns on matters involving business, law and policy. He has served as an adjunct professor of business and 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
- Represented Kroenke Sports Entertainment, the owner of the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids and Los Angeles Rams, in its acquisition of the Sportsman Channel and related properties from InterMedia Partners.
- Represent Clarion Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, in numerous portfolio company acquisitions, dispositions and bolt-ons.
- Serve as counsel to Victory Park Capital, a private equity firm based in Chicago, in numerous portfolio company acquisitions, dispositions and bolt-ons.
- 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.
Insights & Publications
Insights & Publications
News
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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 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, 2024-2025
DU Law Stars, Robert H. McWilliams Jr. Alumni Professionalism Award, 2017
Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2025
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
