Wade Stribling Bio

Wade advises clients on complex business transactions. These include mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, recapitalizations, debt and equity restructurings and workouts, private equity and mezzanine fund formations, and executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements. His clients include private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, which he represents in virtually all aspects of their business. Wade serves as lead counsel in a wide variety of transactions, including change-in-control transactions involving stand-alone and integrated businesses of private and public companies, minority investments in private and public companies, cash and leveraged transactions, stock-for-stock mergers, going-private transactions, and senior and mezzanine debt financings. His transactions have ranged in value from several million dollars to more than $1 billion, been both domestic and cross-border, and across a wide array of industries, including regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services. He also regularly represents portfolio companies of private equity clients in all of their corporate needs, including acquisitions, financings, management incentive arrangements and general corporate counseling. He connects entrepreneurs with investors and advises start-up companies in obtaining and negotiating angel and venture capital investments. In addition, Wade handles real estate matters, mostly centered on venture investments in, and the sale of, pooled assets in the hotel and apartment sectors. He currently serves on Eversheds Sutherland's US Executive Committee.