Jose Corte-Real

Jose Corte-Real handles a wide range of transactions including domestic and cross-border venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters affecting venture backed companies throughout their life cycle. Jose advises clients on all aspects of venture capital transactions, guiding both investors and companies through complex financing rounds and capital raises at various stages of growth and development.

Jose has represented domestic and international emerging growth companies and venture capital firms across a variety of industries, including AI, SAAS, fintech, proptech, cloud infrastructure, agtech, utilities, retail goods, food services, logistics, and other technology and software-focused businesses.

Concentrations

• Venture capital and emerging companies

• Mergers and acquisitions

Experience

Representative Matters

• Represented companies and investors in seed-stage SAFE financings, convertible debt financings, early and late-stage venture capital financings, and strategic investments, including representations of U.S. and Latin America-based startups and venture investors in hundreds of transactions.°

• Represented targets and buyers in acquisitions and sales of companies, divisions, and subsidiaries through numerous structures such as mergers, stock purchases, and asset purchases in both U.S. domestic and cross-border transactions, including the $1B sale of Pismo, a global cloud-native issuer processing and core banking platform.° °The above representations were handled by Mr. Corte-Real prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.