Peter J. Barack

As a founding partner of BFKN, Peter brings his personal success and experience in business to his corporate law practice. Peter’s clients appreciate his deep understanding of them and their businesses and industries, and view Peter as a trusted business adviser as well as their go to legal counsel to get deals done.

Peter is a Senior Partner in BFKN’s Corporate & Securities and Luxury groups. His practice focuses on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and financial planning matters. He regularly represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, strategic business planning and other manner of corporate counseling. In addition, he advises a variety of large public companies, including many foreign companies in their American business activities.

As examples of the diverse nature of his practice, Peter represents a large public French company which with over 75 world renown brands is the largest luxury goods company in the world. He has also represented a large French public company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of a 62.5 percent interest in an international retailer, another French company which is a leader in the world wide snow ski business, another large French company in the merger of its business travel services subsidiary with an American business travel company to form an international company with over $8 billion in annual turnover, the controlling family in a merger of its publicly held sporting goods company into a large privately held sporting goods company and its subsequent listing on the NASDAQ national market system, and a public company in its $350 million acquisition by way of a tender offer and merger into a private equity fund.

Peter’s extensive representation of foreign companies in the U.S. relates back to his experience at Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. He began his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He has continued his academic affiliations by serving as an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law and the holder of the Edward Avery Harriman Lectureship at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches Business Planning, Corporate Finance, and Securities Regulation. He also is an Adjunct Professor in Finance at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management where he has taught Mergers and Acquisitions. He also teaches Mergers and Acquisitions in various mid-career Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management.

Peter is the author of numerous articles on corporate and securities matters, a speaker on corporate law subjects, and a member of various corporate law committees.