Startups & Emerging Companies

About

Provided by Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Our active and highly regarded Private Equity & Venture Capital practice offers in-depth legal and commercial perspectives on all aspects of this rapidly changing field. Our PE/VC team dovetails with the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Finance and Capital Markets teams to provide advice that is perceptive of the commercial context in which market participants operate. We regularly represent firms of every size across the spectrum of investment strategies, including general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as portfolio companies, private equity houses and other financial institutions.

As active participants in the private equity industry, we are able to advise our clients on the latest innovations, as well as current market practices and trends, including their investment parameters, the requirement for leverage and the desire for flexible exit options. Post-investment, we continue to assist our clients with monitoring their investments right through to exit.

We advise on all aspects of private equity including:

• Structuring acquisitions and financings of private and public companies, ranging from buyouts of closely-held and privately-owned companies to “going private” transactions involving public listed companies
• Pre-IPO and secondary investments/divestments
• Joint ventures with established corporations
• Growth and venture capital investments
• Mezzanine capital investments