Ranked in 1 Practice Areas
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Band 4

Private Equity: Fund Formation

Massachusetts

5 Years Ranked

About

Provided by Nicole Rives

USA

Practice Areas

Agriculture & Timberland

Corporate

Finance

Finance - Junior Capital

Investment Advisors, Commodity Trading Advisors & Institutional Investors

Investment Management

Private Equity

Private Investment Funds & Institutional Investors

Real Estate, Alternative & Offshore Investment Funds

REITs

Career

Nicole, a former member of the firm's management committee, focuses on representing institutional investors in debt and equity investments, with a focus in middle market mezzanine debt, equity co-investments, joint ventures, LP investments and private investment fund formation. She also works with investors and investment managers in alternative asset classes, including advising clients in connection with their investment management and advisory agreements in this area, with a particular focus on timberland and agricultural investing. Nicole also has broad experience in advising public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, shareholder issues and other corporate matters.

Nicole is admitted to practice in Massachusetts Massachusetts and before the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Professional Memberships

Boston Bar Association

Work Highlights

Represented life insurance companies and other institutional investors in structuring and acquiring over $1 billion of senior notes including transactions involving real property and equipment security in multi-state transactions

Represented life insurance companies and other mezzanine investors in structuring and acquiring over $1 billion of subordinated notes and private equity co-investments, including transactions involving second liens

Represented a publicly traded real estate investment trust in over $500 million of strategic acquisitions

Represents institutional investment asset managers in connection with its advisory contracts with multi-national institutional clients

Represented a club of institutional investors providing $90 million in equity capital in a going private acquisition of a recycled energy company

Represented a clean energy investment firm providing mezzanine debt for the acquisition of a fleet of electric vehicles for lease to municipal governments

Education

University of Virginia School of Law

J.D.

Virginia Tech

B.S., magna cum laude

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Private Equity: Fund Formation - Massachusetts

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Band 4
Individual Editorial

Nicole Rives of Sullivan & Worcester has a broad-based private equity practice that sees her acting on behalf of both sponsors and institutional investors.

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