Skilled Venture Capital Counselors

Venture capital funding is critical to entrepreneurs, start-up companies and small business. The lawyers at PLDO are experienced in counseling our business clients to raise capital through private placements or debt financing which provides operating and growth capital. Venture capital is typically allocated to small companies with exceptional growth potential, or to companies that have grown quickly and appear poised to continue to expand. We work closely with the client and their financial advisors to structure multiple forms of capital formation.

Strategic Approach – Tailored Solutions

In today’s challenging economic environment, clients often need assistance to access funding sources to maximize their effort for raising capital. Our experienced lawyers deal with financial institutions and investors routinely to identify the most appropriate source of capital depending upon the nature and maturity of the business.

Representative Matters: Venture Capital and Equity Financing

Advising a medical technology company in connection with a convertible preferred stock financing by a venture capital fund.  $2 million

Advising a Boston-based venture capital fund in connection with the funding of a West Coast software development company.  $2.2 million

Representation of an early-stage company developing diagnostic technology and treatments for two specific types of cancer in connection with a convertible preferred equity financing provided by U.S. and Canadian investors.  $3 million

Advising a new, private investment company formed to facilitate investments in start-up U.S.-based technology companies by foreign investors; the offering and sale of equity interests to a group of foreign investor and follow-on representation of the company in connection with investments in three U.S.- based portfolio companies.  $3.2 million

Representation of the founders of a new leveraged buyout fund in connection with its formation, structuring and successful funding by institutional investors.  $125 million

Advising numerous early-stage companies in connection with A and B round financings by venture capital and other private equity funds.

Representation of a special situation (“hard money”) real estate lender in connection with its merger with a competitor, a private equity financing with U.S. and foreign investors and the purchase of a portfolio of high-yield real estate mortgages. $25 million

Advising a minor league professional baseball team in connection with a private placement of convertible preferred equity.  $2 million

Representation of a SAAS (software as a service) company in connection with a convertible note financing.

Advising a regional airline in connection with three offerings and sales of secured term notes, convertible notes and preferred equity.   $3.4 million

Advising the founders with respect to the structuring, formation and offering of equity in multiple private equity funds formed to invest in real estate and privately held operating companies for four different sponsors.