Mr. Bruder brings to the table an extensive career in law, finance and technology, with expertise in intellectual property, energy (oil & gas, power generation and cleantech), mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and technology companies.
On the business side, Mr. Bruder has worked in M&A investment banking in the London office of Morgan Stanley, where he worked on deals in the transportation, telecoms, real estate and financial sponsors groups; he has consulted to start-up technology companies and on cleantech investment banking deals; and he has been a Director in the Corporate Strategy & Business Development group at CODA Automotive and its successor, CODA Energy, manufacturers of electric vehicles and stationary energy storage systems. At CODA, Mr. Bruder’s work included fundraising, where he was instrumental in securing $70 million, prospecting, analyzing, and negotiating partnerships and M&A deals, developing plans and analyzing markets for CODA’s businesses and developing and managing the company’s IP. Mr. Bruder is founder and principal at Corsair Advisory Group, which provides advisory services to operating companies and investment banks in the cleantech and technology spaces.
An engineering graduate, Mr. Bruder started his legal career work in intellectual property at Quarles & Brady in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he worked on patent prosecution as well as trademark and copyright litigation. Mr. Bruder then spent over five years as a corporate transactional lawyer in New York, initially at Davis Polk & Wardwell, then at a bankruptcy boutique started by partners of Wachtel, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and next at Covington & Burling. He additionally served as Deputy General Counsel and Acting GC at CODA Automotive during a portion of his time there. Mr. Bruder’s legal practice has focused on private and public debt and equity financing, M&A transactions, restructuring and general corporate advice, with significant work on energy-related deals. His clients have included Fortune 500 companies and bulge bracket investment banks, on deals valued at up to $1 billion.
Mr. Bruder obtained his undergraduate engineering degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, his law degree (J.D.) from Columbia University’s School of Law, where he was a Stone Scholar, and his MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is admitted to practice law in New York only and to the Southern District of New York.