John LeClaire is a co-founder and the chair of the firm’s nationally ranked Private Equity Group, which was named the 2009 U.S. Buyout Firm of the Year by Buyouts magazine. The Goodwin Procter Private Equity Group serves leading private equity firms and growth companies operating in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Mr. LeClaire’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and relationships with growth companies. He joined Goodwin Procter in 1982 and has been a partner since 1989.
WORK FOR CLIENTS
Mr. LeClaire’s private equity work includes leveraged recapitalizations, buyouts and minority investments in the U.S. and abroad, both in later stage situations and earlier stage ventures, for leading private equity firms. He also specializes in the representation of emerging growth companies in sectors such as technology and information services, health care, financial services and consumer products. Mr. LeClaire’s work with these companies focuses on strategic counsel, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other financing transactions, equity and executive compensation programs for senior executives, and going-private transactions.
Mr. LeClaire’s other private equity work has involved the creation of collective investment vehicles for institutional investors. Examples of this work include the establishment of investment initiatives in emerging markets such as Latin America, China and Russia.
MEDIA
Mr. LeClaire is a frequent writer and speaker in the private equity/emerging companies area and a lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Business. He is regularly quoted in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Daily Deal, Buyouts and Mergers & Acquisitions: The Dealmaker’s Journal.
Mr. LeClaire also published his first book, A Century of Sutton Sports, a collection of tales, oral histories and musings about small town sports and culture over a 100-year span.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. LeClaire is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
RECOGNITION
Mr. LeClaire is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 500 and Leading Dealmakers in America. While attending law school, he was the Articles Editor for the Boston University Law Review.