Practice Areas & Industries: Holland & Hart LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview
Holland & Hart offers a multi-disciplinary practice group devoted to providing advice on all matters involving private equity and venture capital investments. Led by a team of experienced lawyers, we offer our clients a practical and comprehensive understanding of the legal needs of companies receiving private equity or venture capital investments. Our attorneys have also represented a number of venture capital and private equity funds in their formation, fund raising and investment activities. Our clients include investors and companies at all stages of development - from start-up to public companies - in industries as diverse as financial services, health care, high-tech, hospitality, manufacturing, real estate, retail and professional services.

Services Available

Portfolio Company Representation

• Structuring debt and equity capital
• Traditional private placements of securities
• Public offerings of debt and equity
• Private investments in public company (PIPE) transactions
• Advice on various financing alternatives
• Introductions to potential financial sources

Mergers and Acquisitions
As companies grow, they often develop an interest in acquiring other entities or in selling their own enterprises. We have experience in the acquisition and disposition of corporations and their assets, including the negotiation of financing and security arrangements and tax-free mergers. Using our private equity and venture capital experience, we h ave represented buyers, sellers and financial institutions in acquisitions by private equity funds, leveraged buyout transactions, and other acquisitions by financial, as well as strategic, buyers.

Fund Formation and Investments
We have represented a large number of venture capital and private equity funds in their initial formation and fund-raising activities, as well as on-going partnership matters. Our clients have created venture capital, private equity and hedge funds focused on investments in areas as diverse as technology, oil and gas, real estate, asset backed income, state specific, and municipal bonds.