Aaron Zibart

Aaron Zibart is an attorney with Bricker Graydon Wyatt in Louisville, Kentucky, and a member of the firm’s Corporate & Securities Service Team. He concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and general business law, with a primary focus on venture capital and startup companies. His practice includes acquisitions and divestitures, capital raising, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, management incentive arrangements, contract negotiation, and pre-merger regulatory filings.

Aaron earned his J.D. from the University of Kentucky in 2000. His corporate practice has developed around the legal needs of growing companies, investors, founders, and established businesses engaged in financing and strategic transactions. The work requires close attention to ownership structure, investment terms, governance rights, transaction documents, and regulatory requirements. His legal training supports his ability to evaluate those issues within the broader commercial objectives of a deal.

His representative matters include advising a Midwestern venture capital firm focused on health care and technology, assisting an energy consulting firm through a recapitalization, and representing a medical device manufacturer in early-stage debt and equity financings and later recapitalization. Aaron also leads the firm’s Hart-Scott-Rodino team, assisting clients with pre-merger application filings. He has represented companies in sales, purchases, financings, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions across different stages of growth.

Aaron Zibart has also contributed to the Louisville legal and business community, including service as chair of the Louisville Bar Association Corporation Law Section and participation in Leadership Louisville. His practice combines transactional drafting, regulatory awareness, and experience with venture-backed and closely held businesses. He helps clients structure investments and transactions, address governance questions, and move business combinations or financing matters from early planning through documentation and closing.

Law Office Affiliations

• Of Counsel, Bricker Graydon Wyatt LLP
• Member, Kentucky Bar Association
• Chair, Louisville Bar Association Corporation Law Section (2011)
• Participant Class of, Leadership Louisville (2014)

Licensed State

• Kentucky

Education

• University of Kentucky
  Juris Doctor (JD)

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