Ted Lenz

Seasoned adviser for growing companies

Throughout his extensive career, venture capital providers and start-up companies have relied on Ted Lenz to guide them and protect their interests. In addition to advising clients on how much to disclose to investors when raising money - and the best vehicles for raising funds to acquire other companies - his focus is on corporate and private equity finance, corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital transactions.

Representative clients include both large, publicly owned companies, and small, start-up ventures. His extensive experience includes representing:

• Private equity investors and their portfolio companies
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

One of the reasons clients enjoy working with Ted is because he relishes unique and often complicated transactions, and develops innovative approaches to solving those matters. Ted is a creative thinker and likes to solve problems by creating new legal instruments or constructs. He likes to say that he takes his practice very seriously, but he doesn't take himself too seriously.

Significant recent experience includes serving as lead counsel to:

• two newly formed New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trusts, including Securities and Exchange Commission registrations of multiple offerings.
• more than 20 commercial banks in forming real estate investment trusts sponsored and controlled by the banks, including obtaining required federal and state banking approvals and documents initial private financings.