Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment

Choate has extensive experience counseling venture capital investors and high-growth companies, primarily in the technology, life sciences, and healthcare industries. We represent investors in the full range of company stages, from Seed and Series A financings, to later stage growth equity financings and cross-over rounds prior to IPO. Our lawyers also support entrepreneurs on virtually all matters impacting their businesses from company formation and financing, to patent portfolio strategy, licensing and collaboration, to liquidity events.

Choate’s deep legal and industry knowledge is enhanced by our intellectual property specialists with strong scientific and engineering expertise. The firm is known for having a particular acumen in complex markets, including big data and analytics, cloud computing, cybersecurity, fintech, health IT, IoT, mobility, open source, PaaS, robotics, and software development and licensing.

Clients who partner with us get the advantage of extensive partner-led experience, true teamwork and an entrepreneurial culture that transform disruptive ideas into successful businesses.