William Schwab offers a transactional practice focused on advising leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies.
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Growth equity investments
- Leveraged recapitalizations
- Management buyouts
- Secondary transactions
Mr. Schwab also provides outside general counsel to private companies, assisting with:
- Debt and equity financings
- Corporate governance
- Commercial agreements
- Employment matters
In addition, his pro bono work has included providing corporate counsel to an organization serving at-risk youth in Boston, a medical education program focused on Haiti and a community medical center. Previously, Mr. Schwab worked at the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania.
Mr. Schwab's representative clients include Goldman Sachs, Great Hill Partners, TA Associates, Housatonic Partners, Ashford Venture Partners, Fairhaven Capital Partners and Flagship Ventures. Mr. Schwab is also general outside counsel to a number of private companies, including Accretive Technologies, All Web Leads, Buscapé.com, Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., Harmonix Music Systems, Legacy.com and QMC Telecom International.
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Constant Contact, Inc. in its strategic acquisition of SinglePlatform
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Great Hill Partners in numerous investment and sales transactions, including:
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TA Associates sale of Microban International, Ltd. to W.M. Barr & Co.
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BIND Biosciences in US$47.25 million financing led by RUSNANO, Polaris Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners and NanoDimension
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Selecta Biosciences in US$47.25 million financing led by RUSNANO, Polaris Venture Partners, Flagship Ventures, Orbimed and NanoDimension
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QMC Telecom International in its initial equity fundraising
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Goldman Sachs & Co. in numerous investment and sales transactions and recapitalizations, including:
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Brasoil Holdings, Inc.
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Cervalis Holdings LLC
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EZ Lube
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Fairway Resources Partners, LP
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Kerogen Resources, Inc.
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Olympus Holdings Group, LLC
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Opal Resources LLC
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US Development Group, LLC*
* This matter was handled by the attorney while he was employed at another law firm.