Bio

Richard Rafferty has more than 29 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, and securities law, helping clients buy and sell companies and obtain capital to run their businesses. He also provides general corporate, business, and securities counseling to clients as an outside general counsel. He assists clients with respect to public and private financings; negotiation and documentation of acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, recapitalizations, and restructurings; and negotiation and documentation of private equity and venture capital transactions. Richard also counsels fund sponsors and managers with respect to forming investment funds and investing in portfolio companies. He also regularly advises start-up entities with respect to new enterprise formation and capitalization. Richard’s clients operate in many different industries, including retail, healthcare, energy, software, consumer goods, and real estate.