Providing in-depth experience, problem solving and superior services.
At Foley Hoag, we offer our private equity clients the benefit of our substantial practice and considerable experience involving both traditional and regulated private equity funds. The breadth of our capabilities—across all areas of corporate law and corporate finance—provides our clients with access to a full range of services, including:
- Private equity and venture capital fund formation
- Management organization
- Financing of private companies
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Portfolio transactions
- Transfers of fund interests or entire portfolios
- Intellectual property and patents
- International transactions
- U.S. and international tax law
- Hedge funds
- Securities law
- Employment law
- Insolvency law
Private Equity Funds
We seek to differentiate ourselves by providing you with in-depth experience, innovative problem solving, and superior service.
Our clients include venture capital, buy-out, mezzanine and other private equity funds, both domestic and international. Most of our new client relationships are based on referrals by existing clients, or from our industry reputation for providing responsive service and solutions tailored to the specific business needs of each of our clients.
We have exceptional depth of experience and the necessary familiarity with market and regulatory norms and trends. However, we are also alert to those circumstances in which a “one size fits all” approach would be a disservice to our clients. Although our clients closely follow market terms and structures in the vast majority of cases, we also provide creative solutions when they are consistent with our clients’ business objectives. For example, we’ve helped our clients with cross-border management teams, combination management teams, financial leverage at the fund level, creation of multiple investor classes, re-opening of fundraising periods and alternative investment vehicles.
Advantaged Structures
Small Business Investment Companies and Community Reinvestment Act
Foley Hoag lawyers have represented Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) for 30 years; and we were actively involved in the development of the Participating Securities leverage program. We offer our SBIC clients a full range of services in both the Participating Securities leverage program and the Debenture leverage program. We help our SBIC clients with fund formation, licensing, management organization, Small Business Administration (SBA) buy-outs, and portfolio investment regulatory issues. We can also provide expertise in related areas, such as non-SBIC structures that satisfy the requirements of financial institutions that are sensitive to qualification under the Community Reinvestment Act.
Transactional Practice
Our transactional experience enables us to provide you with advice that is practical and value-added , while moving your deal forward. Our firm provides a broad range of services to our private equity investor clients. For example, we’ll work with you in connection with early and later stage investments, leveraged buy-outs and leveraged recapitalizations, debt issuances, public offerings, PIPEs, mergers and acquisitions, management incentives, cross-border transactions, and tax and exit structuring.
Intellectual Property
If your needs include intellectual property matters, we can help you with those issues, as well. Foley Hoag has one of the largest and most sophisticated intellectual property practices in the country. The combination of our traditional licensing, patent prosecution, and trademark and copyright protection practice coupled with a full-service corporate practice enables us to work collaboratively with you to develop a comprehensive patent, intellectual property or branding strategy.
