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I have over 25 years of experience providing counsel and strategic advice to private equity funds, venture capital funds, corporate venture teams, public and private companies, and management teams, on private buy-and sell-side transactions, including leveraged buyouts and add-on/bolt-on transactions, venture capital and emerging company financings, joint ventures and LP secondaries. I began my career with O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell LLP, the then-preeminent private equity and venture capital boutique law firm, when private equity and venture capital asset classes became institutionalized and the venture capital boom of the dot.com era was at its peak. My experience spans a variety of industries, from aerospace to insurance to semiconductors, with an emphasis across the consumer-related industries of sports, beverage and food, entertainment, media and fashion.I serve as outside general counsel to a major sports league, including advising the league in connection with expansion plans, team transfers, and other team- and owner-related matters, and over my career I have represented investors in sports teams, and investors and companies in media and entertainment, men’s and women’s fashion, food packaging, craft brewing, restaurants, discount grocery chains, and specialty chemicals companies that help create everyday products that consumers use.As a founding member of ArentFox Schiff's Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) practice, I also help clients understand that the application of ESG/Sustainability principles doesn't have to be at the expense of their profit considerations - that it is an opportunity to satisfy their fiduciary responsibilities and further their long-term strategic and profit considerations by considering the interests of all of their varied stakeholders and thereby identifying the key risks to avoid and opportunities to pursue.

Listed skills include Private Equity, Venture Capital, Due Diligence, Equities, and 11 others.