Brent L. Bernell

Brent Bernell provides counsel to public and private companies, as well as the institutional investors that help them grow, on the full spectrum of corporate and securities matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Brent also regularly advises on venture capital financings, public company reporting and corporate governance and capital markets transactions.

Brent's transactional practice encompasses representing strategic and financial buyers and sellers in complex mergers and acquisitions, as well as private companies and institutional investors in venture capital and private equity investments and public issuers and underwriters in registered and unregistered public offerings. He also has extensive experience advising on securities law compliance, public company reporting obligations and corporate governance matters. Brent's practice spans industries, but he has a particular focus in the technology, software and life sciences industries.

Brent is the Co-Head of DLA Piper's Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Head of the Firm's Texas Corporate Practice. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Austin PBS and on the Austin advisory board of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Texas TriCities Chapter. Brent previously was the Chair of the Technology Section of the Austin Bar Association.