Vela Wood

• Key Practice Areas: M&A, Sports & Gaming, Venture Capital, and Corporate Transactions
• Offices: Dallas, Texas and Austin, Texas
• Number of Partners: 11
• Numbers of Employees: 80
• Key Stats: facilitated over $1.2B in M&A activity and over $2B in venture financing

Vela Wood (VW) is a boutique full service law firm with a local feel and a global impact. Our firm is based in Texas, with offices in Dallas and Austin, our attorneys are licensed in various jurisdictions throughout the United States, and our clients extend across the globe.

Main Areas of Practice

Vela Wood focuses its practice in the areas of M&A, Sports & Gaming, and Venture Capital.

M&A

Partners: Kevin Vela, Carr Staley, Chi Reece

Vela Wood offers a business-savvy and talented group of M&A attorneys who advise clients on deals throughout the United States and overseas. We have robust experience in all types of M&A transactions, including mergers, asset purchases, equity sales, management buyouts, divestitures, joint ventures, and other corporate restructurings. Our attorneys pride themselves on providing expert, responsivive and diligent representation to target companies of all sizes, buyers (including strategics, private equity funds, and searchfunds), financial advisors, and other M&A deal participants.

Sports & Gaming

Partners: Kevin Vela, Radney Wood

Vela Wood has proudly built a broad sports law practice to support the business of sports and is listed in Hackney Publications’ “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About.” We help large and small enterprises across sports, including domestic and international soccer clients, NFL, MLS, and NBA teams, e-sports, fantasy, and gaming clients, and a variety of other professional teams, leagues, and governing bodies in basketball, indoor soccer, pickleball, rugby, and dodgeball. Leveraging our core corporate and commercial expertise combined with our expertise in sports, Vela Wood is well positioned to help you with a variety of legal matters.

Venture Capital

Partners: Kevin Vela, Radney Wood, Alyson Rubio

Vela Wood represents both companies and investors in venture financings and related matters. In recent years, Vela Wood has represented both startups and investors in hundreds of convertible instrument and equity financing transactions ranging from angel rounds through Series C rounds. In its history Vela Wood has helped launch over 1,900 companies and has facilitated over $2B in venture financing.

Practice Areas and Offices

Vela Wood is based in Texas, with offices in Dallas and Austin. It's practice areas include:

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Startups & Venture
• Sports Law
• Fantasy Sports & Gaming Law
• Alcohol Policy & Regulation
• Fund Representation
• Intellectual Property
• Employment
• Commercial Real Estate Transactions
• Litigation & Bankruptcy
• Search Funds

To contact Vela Wood, visit https://velawood.com/contact.