Richard Small Bio

Richard Small has represented a broad base of clients ranging from buyout and venture capital firms, large manufacturing and service companies, financial services companies, governmental agencies and technology-driven startup and established companies. His clients have been publicly traded and privately owned companies. For an extended period of time more recently, Richard has been principally focused on handling sophisticated transaction work while serving as counsel to a number of midmarket and lower midmarket private equity firms and companies backed by private equity firms. In such capacity, he has led deal teams handling numerous mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged recapitalizations, debt and equity financings, joint ventures, mezzanine financings and venture capital investments (early and late stage) as both company counsel and investor counsel. He has also represented numerous management teams in connection with such transactions. For 30 years, Richard has been listed in the nationally recognized The Best Lawyer’s in America® publication. He appeared in the 2021 edition both in Corporate Law and in Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law. Richard has also been listed in Chambers USA, Legal 500 USA and Lawdragon as a leading buyout and venture capital lawyer.