Aaron L. Pawlitz

Aaron L. Pawlitz serves as the Practice Group Leader for the Corporate Strategies practice group. He is a transactional attorney focusing on publicly-traded and closely-held businesses, mergers and acquisitions, securities, real estate, distribution, and other commercial transactions.

In his corporate practice, Aaron guides business leaders and investors through regulatory, contractual, and deal-making landscapes so that they can achieve their objectives, pursue new opportunities, and move confidently through emerging challenges. He frequently represents buyers or sellers in merger and acquisition transactions and, since 2007, has worked with the transactional insurance products that facilitate those transactions. Those products include representations and warranties insurance, tax indemnity insurance, and intellectual property liability insurance, and the dollar value of the underlying transactions have ranged from $8 million to $27 billion. He also frequently represents clients analyzing their corporate finance options, including issuers in securities offerings. Aaron’s transactional experience extends to counseling clients regarding franchise and other distribution network alternatives. 

In his real estate practice, Aaron helps owners, tenants, and investors realize the benefits of their real property assets so that they can move forward with developments and other projects, provide for the space needs of their workforce and customers, and achieve the desired return on their investment. Aaron understands that his clients’ successes in real estate deals hinge in significant part on his ability to deliver responsive, practical counsel. Although Aaron routinely counsels clients regarding office, warehouse, and retail leases, he also has worked on unique properties such as golf courses, baseball stadiums, and data centers.

Education

• Saint Louis University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2002)

  • Editor-in-Chief, Saint Louis University Law Journal

• University of Missouri at St. Louis (B.A., magna cum laude, 1997)

  • Political Science