The firm maintains extensive experience across all types of funds (formations and operations); leveraged buyouts, roll-ups, build-ups, and consolidations; portfolio company divestitures and other exits; mezzanine and junior capital financings; and complex litigation on behalf of investors and privately financed companies. We represent private equity funds; professional, institutional and angel investors; family offices; and independent sponsors and others seeking to raise capital in private equity and venture finance transactions.

We have acted as lead counsel in numerous domestic and international transactions, closing thousands of transactions worth billions of dollars.

We foster longstanding relationships with investment professionals throughout the United States, including buy-out, broad-based, seed, venture, mezzanine and "cross-over" investment funds, as well as fund of funds, family offices and independent sponsors. Our national practice provided us with insights on emerging trends in deal structures and formations, while our established footprint in New York allows us to provide further market knowledge and support to our client base.

Our team is comprised of more than 40 legal and business professionals with experience in a wide variety of private equity and venture capital matters, including the creation of optimal fund and acquisition/investment structures; the allocation of control and contractual rights between management and investors; the development and implementation of exit strategies; including debt and equity recapitalizations; mergers and acquisitions; sales; and senior and junior debt financing transactions. We bring to bear a wealth of experience on middle market transactions and understand the often unique dynamics of this space.

We also act as outside general counsel for most of the portfolio companies of our fund clients in handling day-to-day legal issues, add-on acquisitions/divestitures, and the eventual sale of the company. Acting as outside counsel gives our team the depth of knowledge and experience needed to help portfolio company boards and management navigate the often complicated legal and business landscape surrounding employee benefits, intellectual property, tax, and corporate finance along, with other critical and often complex issues.

At the acquisition/investment stage, we help clients set goals that align the operational, economic, accounting, tax, and regulatory needs of a particular investment strategy. We have extensive experience in all aspects of an acquisition/investment transaction, including tax structuring, financing, and complex acquisition/investment negotiations.

Ice Miller also has vast experience in the area of fund formation. The specific services we provide in each fund formation are tailored to the needs of each client, including in relation to the investment strategy and size of the fund; special tax, securities, ERISA, or other regulatory or investor considerations; the complexity of the fund formation and the formation of the general partner and management company; and, most importantly, our client objectives. We are also frequently involved in the structuring of relationships between the fund and general partner and management company entities, as well as providing the full array of legal services the fund and those related entities require.