Paul Hastings Advises Angel Oak Companies on Strategic Partnership With Brookfield Asset Management

Paul Hastings LLP advised Angel Oak Companies (Angel Oak), a leading asset manager with over $18 billion in assets under management delivering innovative mortgage and consumer products, on an agreement in which leading global alternative asset manager Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM, TSX: BAM) (Brookfield) will acquire a majority ownership stake in Angel Oak and offer its investors access to the firm’s residential mortgage credit strategies.

Mergers & Acquisitions partners Barry Brooks and Mike Huang and Investment Funds & Private Capital partner Max Rosenberg led the Paul Hastings team, which also included partners Joseph Opich and Ryan Swan, of counsel Jason Hill and Sharon Mori, and associates Anna Hardcastle, Danique McGowan, Mark Raymond and Hailey Ullmann.

More details on the Angel Oak and Brookfield strategic partnership can be found here.

As asset managers navigate evolving market dynamics, Paul Hastings continues to serve as a trusted advisor to our clients in their most significant strategic transactions, leveraging our expertise and experience across investment funds, mergers and acquisitions, tax and regulatory matters. Most recently in 2025, the firm advised Artemis Real Estate Partners on its acquisition by Barings and Fisher Investments in a strategic transaction with Advent International and ADIA.

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