Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment
USA Guide 2024 : Massachusetts
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Provided by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Lewis provides full-spectrum coverage for an array of private equity clients, with a focus on responsiveness and clear and comprehensive representation. Our primary objective is to help our clients evaluate risk in order to execute transactions effectively and efficiently. We swiftly identify and help to quantify risk, and then construct structural and contractual frameworks to allocate that risk. During the investment period, we help portfolio companies deal with issues that surfaced during and after the acquisition, and address emerging legal risks to prepare for an ultimate sale.
In each phase, we provide market-informed transactional and finance counsel that responds to the investment objectives of the private equity sponsor and the business realities of the portfolio company and its industry. Our representations range from multibillion-dollar acquisitions and related financings to small- and middle-market deals.
While we have one of the leading middle-market private equity practices in the United States, our experience extends from the largest funds and transactions, through the middle market, to small funds and pledge fund deals. Clients engage us to work primarily on funds focused on specific sectors, such as energy and infrastructure, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, retail, consumer products, restaurants, media, transportation, and technology, as well as on target characteristics, such as distressed investing and turnaround opportunities.
Chambers Review
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is noted for its well-rounded platform for emerging businesses, offering expert counsel on financing transactions as well as in deal-adjacent issues such as tax, capital markets and intellectual property, alongside a nationally reputed employee benefits and labor and employment practice. Noted for its expertise in the life sciences and healthcare sectors.
Work Highlights
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP represented Strand Therapeutics in its $40 million Series A-2 financing, which was led by FPV Fund.
Notable Practitioners
Julio Vega enjoys an excellent reputation for his representation of technology and life sciences startups and mature companies across the full gamut of transactional and broader corporate law issues. He offers significant experience advising on financing transactions, as well as commercial agreements.
"Julio is a great lawyer."
Michael Conza's diverse corporate law practice features notable strengths in the venture capital sector, where he acts for emerging businesses and investors on formation, financing and exits. He is particularly skilled in acting for companies in the technology sector, notably the software, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity fields.