Bio

Clare Lewis represents independent sponsors, private equity and venture capital fund investors, as well as emerging growth and middle market companies, generally and in connection with mergers and acquisitions, equity financings, corporate governance, fund formations and other specialist matters. Having represented companies, investors, and lenders, as well as both financial and strategic buyers and sellers, Clare has experience with many sides and aspects of capital raising, strategic partnering and mergers and acquisitions. Clare advises emerging-growth and early-stage companies, particularly in the technology space, as they work to advance their business objectives and goals. She works to provide value beyond legal services by facilitating introductions for clients and through networking opportunities. She regularly represents institutional investors, private equity funds, independent sponsors, venture capitalists and angel investors making private equity, venture capital, and early-stage investments. She routinely works with capital providers, including family offices, in all levels of the capital stack to advise on middle market deals across a breadth of industries, including technology, crypto and blockchain, financial institutions and services, energy, healthcare, life sciences, distribution, products and retail, food and beverage, and other industries. Clare holds the CIPP/US certification as a Certified Information Privacy Professional from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Clare also contributes to the Password Protected blog which covers data privacy and security news and trends. Prior to joining McGuireWoods, Clare was an associate in Technology Investment Banking at Wells Fargo Securities and held FINRA Investment Banking Series 79 and 63 Licenses.