Ed Powell Bio

Ed Powell’s legal practice focuses on corporate, securities, finance and banking law, with specializations in transactional matters - including mergers and acquisitions, company financing and capital raising rounds, commercial business transactions, and corporate law matters - including strategic advice, regulatory matters, corporate governance, and compliance. Before founding Transaction Legal Services, Inc., Ed practiced at Latham & Watkins LLP and as Associate General Counsel at Ares Management. His transactional practice involved private equity investments and dispositions, mergers and acquisitions, financing arrangements, commercial transactions, equity, and debt offerings, and securities trading. Ed has represented entrepreneurs, businesses, financial institutions, and investment funds at all stages of development and need, including entity and fund formation, management and maintenance, financings and capital raising rounds, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate planning and risk management, and workouts and restructurings. Ed has served as a member of the Board of Directors of ACT1 of the American Conservatory Theater and the Professional Division of the Arts & Science Council. Ed is also a regular speaker and contributor to legal and industry groups and journals on topics including commercial transactions, banking, antitrust, and mergers and acquisitions. Ed received his J.D. from The University of California, Berkeley, where he was an Editor of the California Law Review, and his B.A. with Honors from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ed is a member of the State Bar of California.