Charles J Downey III

Practice Areas

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate Governance

Securities & Equity Financing Transactions

Independent Sponsors & Co-Investments

Professional Memberships

Admitted States of Connecticut and New York.

Business Law Section of the ABA

Business Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Past Member, Board of Directors, Connecticut Venture Group.

Publications

Articles and lectures in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital.

“Federalism in the Michigan v. Long Era – Delaware v. Van Arsdall and the Continued Need for Coherent State Adjudication,” Annual Survey of American Law (1989)

Personal

Past Member, Board of Directors and Steering Committee, Greenwich Alliance for Education.

Career

Previous: Corporate Associate, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, New York, NY

Work Highlights

- Represented many of the firm’s major private equity clients in their platform, add-on, equity financing, and sale transactions.

- Represent an iconic American clothing brand in its debt and equity recapitalization and financing by institutional investors.

- Represent a major consumer products company in most of its North American M&A activity for over 25 years.

- Represent acquirors in overseas transactions, including Czech Republic, Israel, India, etc.

- Represent sellers of businesses in the same industry in pre-arranged concurrent joint sales (typically to a single private equity buyer as an instant platform).

- Represent buyers and sellers in registered investment advisor M&A transactions, including sales to public overseas strategic buyers.

- Represent sophisticated institutional investors in complex PIPE transactions.

Clients

- Private equity firms and their portfolio companies

- Growth equity firms

- Multinational companies

- Founders

- Collective investment vehicles

Education