Private Equity

Waller assists private equity and venture capital firms, hedge funds, family offices, fundless sponsors and angel investors with all of their transactional needs across a variety of industries.  

Some of the most active private equity and venture capital firms in the United States rely on us for a range of investment, acquisition, divestiture and financing activities. We provide fully integrated and multi-disciplinary teams blending the knowledge of experienced transactional, regulatory and compliance attorneys.

Our experience includes both domestic and cross-border transactions and ranges from high-profile going private/taking private transactions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions and dispositions. Waller's private equity and venture capital team assists clients by:

• Providing counsel on matters involving capital raises, complex financings, platform-company and "add-on" acquisitions, dispositions of investments and portfolio companies, banker process and strategic sales, public offerings and recapitalizations
• Structuring, negotiating and executing complex acquisitions, financings and dispositions on behalf of private equity and venture capital firms, fundless sponsors, family offices and other transaction participants

Mezzanine capital is an increasingly popular means to finance transactions ranging from leveraged buyouts to real estate acquisitions. Our experience in this growing market segment includes a wide range of commercial projects, including office, industrial, retail, commercial, mixed-use and multi-family residential projects. Waller provides the following services, among others:

• Represents private mezzanine and subordinate debt investment funds, family offices, institutional investors and other market participants throughout the United States
• Assists in mezzanine finance transactions involving start-ups and emerging companies ranging to more well-established privately held and publicly traded companies
• Advises issuers, investors and financial sponsors on sponsored and unsponsored transactions, complex mezzanine structures including extensive subordination and intercreditor arrangements involving senior and subordinated debt components