Goodwin Procter LLP

At Goodwin, we live your business. We are a firm of insiders relentlessly focused on understanding the pulse within six industries: healthcare, investment funds, life sciences, private equity, real estate, and technology. This means that we deliver unprecedented client value through a unique combination of industry knowledge, legal excellence, and business advisory expertise – all powered by our high-performance culture.

Our industry expertise includes:

Technology-Goodwin Technology lawyers are strategically positioned at the intersection of new technology, investors, and emerging markets to help companies secure funding, protect their intellectual property, and navigate a challenging regulatory environment. We work with our technology clients from the earliest stages of development and commercialization through maturity to differentiate their products in the marketplace and scale their businesses accordingly.

Life Sciences-Goodwin’s Life Sciences team serves innovators and investors who work collaboratively across the life sciences ecosystem to improve the lives of patients around the world. Taking a multidisciplinary approach to address clients’ challenges, we work with life sciences companies throughout the corporate life cycle—from startup to maturity—as well as investors, banks, and others in the life sciences ecosystem.

Private Equity-Goodwin does more buyouts and growth equity deals than any other firm in the world. This experience enables our Private Equity lawyers to leverage deep market insights and an extensive network of industry relationships to help clients secure deals and build equity value. We represent private equity sponsors, early- through late-stage investors, portfolio companies, senior management teams, lenders, financial institutions, and alternative investors.

Real Estate-Our Real Estate team employs a practical approach based on deep market insights to help private and public clients make the most of every investment decision. We specialize in structuring, raising, and deploying capital across transactions including equity and debt financings, joint ventures, portfolio and REIT mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions, hospitality and leisure, and large-scale development work.

Investment Funds & Capital-We advise clients who raise funds ranging from less than $10 million to over $25 billion, with a particular focus on private equity, real estate, venture capital, infrastructure, fund-of-funds, credit/debt, impact and responsible investing, emerging market, listed, and hedge funds. We also specialize in large-scale GP-led liquidity events, fund restructurings, separate managed accounts, secondaries, co-investment pools, hybrid funds, and complex incentive arrangements.

Healthcare-Goodwin empowers clients to accelerate growth, manage risk, and lead with confidence through every stage of the healthcare business life cycle. Our integrated team of corporate, private equity, regulatory, and litigation lawyers delivers strategic, actionable guidance across a broad range of high-impact matters—from M&A, initial public offerings, and venture capital financings to licensing, internal investigations, and complex disputes.