Private Equity and Venture Capital

Freeborn provides sound transaction structure and counsel on a wide array of deals, typically ranging from $20-500 million. In addition, our attorneys have vast experience working side-by-side with private equity professionals and their portfolio management teams on day-to-day operations—as outside general counsel—to implement growth strategies and achieve profitable exits. Clients include private equity and venture capital firms,  buyers, sellers, target companies and management teams. 

Freeborn’s PE team has decades of experience assisting PE firms with platform acquisitions, add-ons, representation of portfolio companies, and exit transactions. Not only have we worked with them on hundreds of M&A transactions, our attorneys have vast experience working side-by-side with private equity professionals and their portfolio company’s management teams on day-to-day operations—as outside general counsel—to implement growth strategies and achieve profitable exits. These strategies range from internal growth, to roll-ups, to replacing management teams, to aggressive litigation against industry players who were competing unfairly. Our counsel has earned Freeborn the reputation as a trusted partner and advisor in many situations: 

  • Acquisitions of platform companies or add-ons
  • Joint ventures
  • Venture capital investments in start-ups and high-growth companies
  • Divestitures
  • Recapitalizations
  • Fund formation
  • Fund-to-fund investments
  • Minority investments