Christopher C. Frieden

Partner,

Atlanta

Phone: +1 404 881 7457
Email: chris.frieden@alston.com

Key players in the financial services industry, including banks, mortgage companies, wealth management and investment advisory firms rely on Chris to guide them through business combination and securities transactions as well as ownership transition and succession planning transactions. His knowledge is also sought on corporate governance matters and new business formation and registration.

Wealth Management and Investment Advisory

Assisted in the formation and registration of registered investment adviser (RIA) firms.
Represented clients in acquisitions and investments over the last two years valued at more than $5 billion.
Advised clients on more than 100 internal equity sale transactions.
Counsel to a nationally recognized RIA with $30 billion of AUM in its acquisition of a Minnesota RIA.
Represented one of the largest independent RIAs in the U.S. with over $20 billion in AUM in its investment from a leading global investment firm. Completed more than a dozen additional acquisitions for client.
Represented an institutional asset management firm and RIA with $18 billion in AUM in its $480 million acquisition by a diversified global asset management firm.
Represented an RIA in New Jersey and New York with $6 billion in AUM that specializes in financial planning and investment management in its acquisition by a global asset management and wealth management advisory services company.
Represented a wealth management and financial advisory services firm in its acquisition by one of the nation’s largest RIAs.
Counsel to a national multi-family office with $25 billion AUM in the sale of a majority stake to a private equity firm, together with multiple follow-on platform acquisitions.
Counsel to a North Carolina-based RIA and broker dealer with approximately $575 billion AUA in connection with a private equity investment valuing the enterprise at approximately $1.25 billion.
Represented more than a dozen RIAs in corporate restructuring and S corporation conversion transactions.
Counsel to a nationally recognized UHNW firm in the acquisition of more than $10 billion of AUM.
Represented a Midwest-based RIA in a $55 million private-equity-backed management buyout transaction and recapitalization transaction.
Counsel to the principals of a national RIA with $10 billion of AUM in a corporate restructuring, succession planning, and governance overhaul transaction.
Represented a management team in the management buyout of a Pennsylvania-based RIA.
Represented a Boston-based RIA in the acquisition of an RIA subsidiary with $1 billion of AUM from a large publicly traded financial institution.
Represented a large Illinois-based RIA in six acquisitions of competing in-market and out-of-market RIA businesses over a four-year period.
Counsel to a publicly traded, nationally recognized bank with $140 billion of AUM in its acquisition of a state-chartered trust company and RIA with $2 billion of AUM.
Represented a Minnesota-based RIA in a recapitalization transaction with a third-party passive investor.

Christopher C. Frieden

Wealth Management and Investment Advisory

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