Jeffrey Brill

Practice Areas

Jeffrey Brill co-leads Skadden’s global fintech practice, which was named a Law360 Practice Group of the Year in 2023 and 2024. He also serves as co-head of the firm's global Financial Institutions Group and co-head of the M&A Group in New York. Mr. Brill has a diverse practice, primarily concentrating on mergers and acquisitions, other corporate and commercial transactions and corporate law matters.

Mr. Brill has represented public and private clients in a broad variety of U.S. and international transactions, including negotiated and contested acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, auctions, carve-outs, strategic investments, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, partnerships, and other corporate and commercial transactions. He also represents clients in connection with various corporate matters, financings and corporate governance.

Mr. Brill serves on the firm’s Policy Committee, its top governing body. He also is the co-coordinator of the firm’s global alumni program.

In recognition of his work, Mr. Brill has been ranked repeatedly in Chambers, in which clients describe him as an “incredible lawyer” with a “keen sense for spotting, and more importantly, resolving even the most difficult issues." He also is recognized as a leading practitioner by The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000.

Mr. Brill has been named a 2023 Dealmaker by MergerLinks, a 2022 Fintech MVP by Law360, selected for inclusion in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America and Lexology's Who’s Who Legal: Fintech & Blockchain. He also was named: one of the best blockchain lawyers by Identity Review, a global technology think tank; a Sports Business Journal Power Player in Sports Law (Platinum Tier); one of

Investment Dealers’ Digest's Forty Under Forty top dealmakers in the country (one of only six attorneys to receive such recognition); and honored by The M&A Advisor with 40 Under 40 accolades

Professional Memberships

Member, Board of Directors, National Academy Foundation; Former member, Law360’s M&A Editorial Advisory Board.

Industry Sector Expertise

Mr. Brill has advised clients in a wide range of industries, including the following representations:

Fintech; Data and Analytics; Market Infrastructure

S&P Global in its:

-sale of its Engineering Solutions business to funds managed by KKR

-acquisition of Visible Alpha

Pagaya Technologies Ltd. in its business combination with EJF Acquisition Corp.

Betterment in its acquisition of Makara

iCapital in its acquisition of SIMON Markets

Zip Co Limited, an Australian public company, in its announced acquisition of Sezzle Inc. and its acquisition of QuadPay

Information Builders in its sale to TIBCO Software

Nasdaq in its:

- carve-out sale of its U.S. fixed-income electronic trading business to Tradeweb Markets

- carve-out acquisition of the eSpeed platform for electronic trading in U.S. Treasury securities from BGC Partners, an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald

-spin-off of its private market trading platform to create Nasdaq Private Markets, a joint venture with SVB Financial Group, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

-sale of International Derivatives Clearing Group to LCH. Clearnet Group via merger

-strategic investment in LeveL ATS and the subsequent merger of LeveL ATS and Luminex

North American Bancard in connection with its:

-acquisitions of Signature Payments and CardWorks Acquiring

-agreement with Apple to provide the “Tap to Pay” solution on the iPhone

Polypaths, a provider of fixed-income and structured finance analytics and risk management solutions for financial institutions, in connection with its sale to Numerix, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital

Citigroup/Citibank, N.A. in numerous commercial and strategic transactions, including its:

-digital lending partnership with Amazon.com, Inc. to offer Citi cardholders alternative payment plans when making purchases on Amazon.com

-spin-out of the “Bridge built by Citi” digital platform to Foro Holdings, including an investment in Foro

establishing a service offering to custody and settle digital assets for its customers, including agreements with multiple leading technology providers to financial institutions

-partnership with Covr Financial Technologies to offer insurance and long-term care solutions to Citi’s clients via Covr’s digital insurance platform

-carve-out sales of its (a) fixed-income analytics and index businesses, including The Yield Book and the World Government Bond Index, to the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and the recent extension of its strategic partnership, including a customer agreement, with LSEG with respect to financial models, analytics and model infrastructure; (b) worldwide prepaid cards business to an affiliate of Wirecard AG; and (c) equities market-making business of Automated Trading Desk Financial Services to Citadel Securities

-acquisition of Automated Trading Desk, Inc.

-investments in KomGo S.A. and Defacto

Citi Ventures in the formation of, and investment in, Ensemble Technologies and the spin-out of assets to, and initial acquisition of common stock of, Worthi

The Sage Group plc in its acquisitions of Lockstep and Intacct Corporation

Total Merchant Services in its acquisition by North American Bancard and dividend recapitalization

Other fintech clients have included ACI Worldwide, CoinZoom, Pico and QuadPay.

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