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The Speaker Series
The Speaker Series
Men and women of the Gilmour community are invited to join us at Gilmour for monthly gatherings with refreshments. Sponsored by the Men's Club, The Speaker Series features a different topic each month and is free to attend. Bring business cards to share as you connect and strengthen ties.
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The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
RSVP hereThis month's speaker is Brent Pietrafese, an accomplished corporate attorney whose practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions and general corporate representation. He and his wife, Cheryl, have two children, who have started at Gilmour this year — Brent J. ’30 and Lilly ’32 Pietrafese.As co-chair of Calfee's Corporate and Finance practice group and a leader of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions group and the Wealth Management group, Brent Pietrafese has a broad practice centering on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions, and general corporate representation of both public and private companies.Brent helps clients consummate mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, and restructurings for a wide range of companies and industries. He has developed particular expertise in representing private equity firms, family offices and other financial investors in leveraged buyouts, investments and dispositions.Brent's experience with private equity firms, family offices and investment funds helps him assist clients in capital formation matters, including venture and mezzanine capital and other private equity financing matters.In addition, Brent provides day-to-day general corporate counseling to his clients and has extensive experience counseling clients on complex contract law matters, distributor and sales agent agreements, sales and purchasing contracts, and related terms and conditions of sale and purchase.
Brent joined Calfee in 2003 and was elected Partner in 2012. He served as vice chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group (2022) and currently serves as co-chair of the Corporate and Finance practice group (2023-present).
Brent has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Corporate/M&A by Chambers USA in Band 3, Ohio: North, most recently in 2026. Chambers USA researchers commented, "Brent is extremely strong, aware, balanced, and has good business acumen to supplement legal knowledge."
He has also earned recognition from The Legal 500, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America and Ohio Super Lawyers and was named to Crain’s Cleveland Business’ 25th Anniversary “Forty Under 40” list in 2016.
A graduate of Miami University, Brent earned both his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and his M.B.A. from the Weatherhead School of Management in 2003.
At Gilmour’s Speaker Series, Brent will discuss how AI is changing the way M&A deals are conducted and how those changes are reshaping the hiring and training of young lawyers.Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts -
The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts -
The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts -
The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts -
The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts -
The Speaker Series Sponsored by the Men's Club
Black Box Theater, The Lorraine and Bill Dodero Center for Performing Arts
