VENTURE CAPITAL TEAM
Holland & Knight's Venture Capital Team represents a broad range of institutional venture capital (VC) investors and corporate venture capital (CVC) groups with assets under management worth tens of billions of dollars. From term sheet to exit strategy, we advise on all aspects of operations, fund formation, structuring, investment maintenance, tax planning and liquidity issues.
Advising clients on billions of dollars in transactions each year, our team is ranked among the most active law firms for private equity and VC transactions in benchmarking league tables produced by market-leading publications. Senior attorneys lead each of our VC representations, structuring every deal to reflect clients' long-term strategies. Our lawyers draw on decades of experience to develop strategies across multiple financing rounds, aiming to protect investors and their returns in early, growth and late stages. We help VC funds invest and manage portfolio companies, including strategically addressing complex challenges from a shifting economy or down market.
STRATEGIC GUIDANCE
Holland & Knight's Venture Capital Team advises VC firms, corporate strategic investors, angel investors and family offices on all aspects of operations, formation, investment and liquidity issues, calibrating our guidance with fluctuating market conditions and our clients' goals over the life of their investments.
Senior VC lawyers lead every deal, drawing on their individual years of experience and the related capabilities of our approximately 2,200 attorneys and other professionals so that each aspect of a transaction is carefully considered. To us, a prospective investment is not a generic entity, but a unique and distinctive company within its industry.
EXPERIENCE ACROSS SECTORS
Our team represents VC clients investing in companies at all stages of development, including incubation, seed, growth, down rounds and recapitalizations. We advise investors in a wide range of sectors, including:
CVC FUNDING FAMILIARITY
Our Venture Capital Team advises companies in both establishing and developing their CVC initiatives, as well as in their strategic investments across the globe. We advise CVC clients on leveraging their global networks and expertise to assist portfolio companies and accelerate enterprise growth. With Holland & Knight's guidance, our CVC clients have made a number of strategic investments aimed at developing disruptive technologies, encouraging innovation and leveraging synergies with parent companies, as well as investments made primarily for financial returns.
EFFECTIVE FUND FORMATION AND LIQUIDATION STRATEGIES
In conjunction with Holland & Knight's Private Investment Funds Team, we counsel clients in the formation of a wide range of domestic and international private investment funds. As a full-service firm, we have the ability to call on attorneys across teams to advise clients on all aspects of fund formation, from achieving a tax-efficient structure and complying with applicable securities laws to meeting ancillary objectives, such as adviser registration and personal tax planning for fund managers. We offer an integrated approach that incorporates the extensive knowledge of our securities, tax, corporate and employee benefits lawyers to guide our private investment fund clients through the entire range of legal issues involved in the formation process. Our lawyers also advise institutional VC investors, pension funds, endowments, large companies and high-net-worth individuals investing in funds and funds of funds.
A key issue for many clients is the development of an exit or sale strategy, which is why our lawyers begin considering a liquidity plan at the same time they formulate all other strategies. To this end, our Venture Capital Team employs a holistic approach to investment strategy that includes all applicable stages of development.