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Goodwin Offices
601 Marshall Street
Redwood City, CA 94063
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Robert Fore
Position
Partner
Career
Rob Fore is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Investment Funds group. With over twenty years of experience in the field of fund formation and operations, Mr. Fore advises venture capital funds, buyout funds, funds-of-funds and other private equity funds and their management companies in connection with structuring, formation and operations. He also represents institutional investors in venture capital and private equity funds. Over the course of his career, Mr. Fore has participated in the formation of over 400 domestic and non-U.S. funds.
Mr. Fore’s practice also includes representing venture capital funds and private equity funds in their investment activities and has extensive experience in venture capital financings. He also has experience with limited partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, private placements and mergers and acquisitions.
Education
Masters of Business Admin, 1999, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management / JD, 1988, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (Order of the Coif, St. Thomas More Law Honor Society) / BS, 1985, University of Southern California
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
The ‘very responsive‘ team at Goodwin acts on a variety of matters, with standout strengths in the real estate sector and in assisting with venture capital fundraising. In 2022, the firm continued it’s substantial growth in this practice area with further partner hires, including Eunice Choi, whose ‘keen sense of judgment is unparalleled‘, an arrival from Cooley LLP in March 2022, joining the San Francisco office, and in this space has a particular focus on the formation and operation of venture capital funds. She joins a department that is headed nationally by Mandee Gruen in New York, who is strong in the real estate space and also on ESG matters. John Ferguson is a key name alongside Gruen in New York, also with a real estate focus, while former practice co-chair Paul Verbesey remains a senior figure at the firm’s Washington DC office. From the sizeable team that has presences across the country, Robert Fore in Silicon Valley has had a busy year.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)