The ‘responsive and collaborative’ team at Holland & Knight leverages the firm’s strong relationships with institutional investors to shine in advising venture capital funds and private equity clients on investment transactions. On the company front, the group supports entrepreneurs on formation, funding, and securities matters. From Century City, Tim Poydenis co-heads the department and acts for both growth companies and investors on fundraisings, acquisitions, exits, and governance issues. Boston is the seat of fellow national co-head Jeffrey Seul, who additionally chairs the technology and telecoms area; he frequently represents technology start-ups in financing rounds. From Miami, Danielle Price and Enrique Conde co-head the practice for south Florida.
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Profile

Testimonials

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  • ‘H&K's VC practice is distinctive. A consistent senior team that is responsive and collaborative and comes up with efficient and practical solutions for our needs. For example, it helped us to devise a customized but straightforward solution to offer co-investment opportunities to potential investors.’

  • ‘Roberto Pupo gets us the answers we need or puts us in touch with the colleagues who can do it. Danielle Price is always willing to help and offer pragmatic advice.’

Key clients

  • Clearsense, Inc.
  • ClinCapture
  • Ory Corp.
  • Evidity Health Capital, LLC
  • Fortress Payments
  • Hale Capital Partners LP
  • Krealto Ltd.
  • North Haven/Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital
  • Real Estate Technology Ventures
  • RiverVest Venture Partners

Work highlights

  • Advised Macquarie Capital on an investment in conjunction with the acquisition of a majority stake in BioCatch by Permira Growth Opportunities II.
  • Advised Ory Corp on a $5m Series A extension financing round led by Insight Ventures and Balderton Capital.
  • Represented SwiftConnect in connection with a $36.9m Series B preferred financing round led by Quadri Ventures.

Lawyers

Practice head

Tim Poydenis; Jeffrey Seul

Other key lawyers

Enrique Conde; Danielle Price; Edward Sarnowski; Isaac Newell; Roberto Pupo