Rick Graf is the head of the private equity and venture capital practices of Moarbes. Rick ran numerous complex mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions with and for a number of Fortune 100 companies and private equity clients worldwide - including GE Capital, Continental Airlines, Texas Pacific Group, AOL, AOL Latin America and Alloy, Inc.
Rick has been a company counsel on more than 150 venture capital transactions with an aggregate dollar value in excess of 1.5B. He has counseled numerous startups in a wide variety of industries, including traditional software, SaaS, analytics, payments, biotech, organic food production and distribution, e-commerce, remote health care and telecommunications. Rick holds a BA and MA from the University of Chicago, as well as a JD from Boston College of Law.
Venture and Startup Experience. Company counsel on more than 200 venture capital transactions with an aggregate dollar value in excess of $1 billion. Investor counsel on more than 50 venture capital and private equity transactions with an aggregate dollar value in excess of $350 million. Primary outside counsel to numerous startups in a wide variety of industries, including traditional software, SaaS, analytics, payments, biotech, organic food production and distribution, e-commerce, remote health care and telecommunications.
M&A Experience. Lead counsel on more than 100 public and private M&A transactions, ranging in size from $250,000 to over $5 billion, over a broad range of industries, including SaaS and other software services, fintech, internet retailers, airlines, biotech, financial services, satellite services and coal and mining companies.
Public and private securities offerings, including IPOs. Lead counsel on numerous Reg D offerings, PIPE transactions, registered follow-on equity offerings, 144A debt offerings and Reg S offshore equity and debt offerings, public-company spinoff and related public rights offerings.