Christopher Ahn > Proskauer Rose LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Christopher Ahn

Work Department
Corporate
Position
Chris Ahn is a partner in Proskauer’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Group. Chris advises private equity sponsors, other investors, private and public companies and investment banks on merger & acquisition transactions, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings, minority investments, growth equity investments and other strategic transactions.
Chris also serves as day-to-day legal advisor to numerous operating companies, including many of the portfolio companies owned or controlled by his sponsor clients, and is actively involved in many aspects of their businesses, including add-on acquisitions and commercial arrangements. He also has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies.
From 2018 until 2021, Chris served as General Counsel of James Perse, a global apparel, furniture, furnishings and lifestyle brand based in Los Angeles.
Chris is an active participant in firm administration and recruiting, and currently serves as co-chair of Proskauer’s Hiring Committee for the Los Angeles office.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
Proskauer Rose LLP’s advises clients on middle-market transactions across sports, technology, healthcare, real estate, and consumer goods. With a strong presence in New York and Los Angeles, the firm supports clients throughout the fund lifecycle, from formation to exits. Lauren Boglivi leads the team from New York and handles domestic and cross-border M&A for an extensive roster of financial sponsors, particularly those focused on healthcare, media and entertainment. Co-heads Daniel Ganitsky and Michael Ellis also advise from the New York office and offer particular experience in takeovers, joint ventures, and restructurings. From Los Angeles, Christopher Ahn has recently been active on multiple transactions in the food and drinks sector, while Ben Orlanski underpins his deal-making expertise with skill in corporate governance matters. Also LA-based, Kristian Herrmann’s varied mid-market capabilities include leveraged buyouts, investment deals, and portfolio company sell-side processes. Jonathan Gill and Robb Tretter joined from Ropes & Gray LLP in November 2024 and bring further capabilities in M&A.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)