Private Equity and Venture Capital Transactions

My practice includes the representation of both individual companies and private equity and venture capital investors in various stages of privately negotiated investment financing transactions and exit strategies. These services include matters, such as the negotiation of:
  • Seed and angel financings

  • Convertible note financings

  • Private debt offerings and syndicated loans

  • Offerings of common and preferred stock in later round offerings

  • Merger and acquisition in both acquisition and exit transactions

This representation includes, among other things, preparing and negotiating:
  • Complex securities purchase agreements and investment agreements

  • Stockholder agreements establishing the contractual arrangements between the investors, the issuers, and their founders, including

  • Preferred stock designations, rights and preferences

  • Registration rights agreements

  • Warrant agreements

  • Debt instruments, including convertible promissory notes

  • Debt instruments, including convertible promissory notes

  • Loan documentation for private equity lending transactions

In the event that the growth and exit strategies include merger and acquisition transactions, my services for such transactions are described in greater detail at Mergers, Acquisitions and Extraordinary Corporate Transactions. In the event that the exit strategies include an initial public offering, my services for such transactions are described in greater detail at Public and Private Offerings.