Edward A. Reilly, Jr.
Areas of Practice
Ed Reilly, a partner in Goodwin Procter's Business Law Department, has extensive experience in servicing the legal needs of a diverse group of business entities, including public and private companies, limited liability companies and partnerships. Mr. Reilly's clients include operating companies, investment partnerships, financial services companies and strategic investment divisions of major corporations. He has counseled clients in connection with the equity and debt components of leveraged buy-outs, preferred stock investments in emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities, private placements of securities by public and privately held companies, employment and executive compensation matters, commercial contract negotiations and disputes, secured and unsecured debt financing, intercreditor and subordination issues, investment fund formation, corporate governance issues, transactions involving creditors' rights and insolvency, and many types of commercial disputes.
Work for Clients
Mr. Reilly has a focused practice in the fields of private equity, mezzanine financing and venture capital from the orientation of the investors, issuers and key managers and founders of rapidly changing companies. Since 1979, he has assisted many growth companies, their investors and their management teams with legal and strategic advice in connection with corporate organization, initial financing, organic growth, growth by merger and acquisition, executive recruiting and retention, contract disputes, litigation and liquidity transactions. These experiences enable Mr. Reilly to offer a clear perspective on the challenges and pitfalls confronting rapidly growing companies. He translates this to proactive planning and advice in connection with the transaction structuring, business planning and negotiation skills which are required to operate in a highly volatile business environment.
Mr. Reilly has had particular experience counseling companies and investors in regulated industries including insurance, broadcast, banking, investment management, healthcare and public utilities and in industries which are dependent on intellectual property including life sciences, publishing and information technology. These complex business environments impose additional challenges for growing companies. Mr. Reilly's experience in navigating these complex and politically sensitive regulatory systems has led to creative solutions for many emerging companies in these fields....more » Mr. Reilly has a focused practice in the fields of private equity, mezzanine financing and venture capital from the orientation of the investors, issuers and key managers and founders of rapidly changing companies. Since 1979, he has assisted many growth companies, their investors and their management teams with legal and strategic advice in connection with corporate organization, initial financing, organic growth, growth by merger and acquisition, executive recruiting and retention, contract disputes, litigation and liquidity transactions. These experiences enable Mr. Reilly to offer a clear perspective on the challenges and pitfalls confronting rapidly growing companies. He translates this to proactive planning and advice in connection with the transaction structuring, business planning and negotiation skills which are required to operate in a highly volatile business environment.
Mr. Reilly has had particular experience counseling companies and investors in regulated industries including insurance, broadcast, banking, investment management, healthcare and public utilities and in industries which are dependent on intellectual property including life sciences, publishing and information technology. These complex business environments impose additional challenges for growing companies. Mr. Reilly's experience in navigating these complex and politically sensitive regulatory systems has led to creative solutions for many emerging companies in these fields.
Venture capital, mezzanine, private equity and hedge fund managers have relied upon Mr. Reilly in connection with structuring transactions which balance the competing interests of new investors with those of management teams, existing investors, senior lenders and regulators. In addition, he frequently advises these institutional investors on issues related to fund formation, management company structures, governance, economic allocations of carried interests and management fees and relationships with limited partners, members and other domestic and foreign investor groups.
Throughout his career, Mr. Reilly has provided extensive counseling to entrepreneurs and management teams in the context of their relationships with financial and strategic partners. His experience includes structuring executive compensation and equity incentive plans, advising on investor relations issues, management buy-outs, managing through financial difficulties and exit strategies. He has frequently represented serial entrepreneurs in connection with navigating through the growth cycles that affect their businesses. less »
Professional Activities
Mr. Reilly is a Director of the Connecticut Venture Group, one of the oldest venture capital and private equity organizations in the country, and a Trustee of the Wayne Brown Institute, a leading entrepreneurship institute based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mr. Reilly is frequently quoted in the Daily Deal and other trade publications, and appears as a lecturer, panelist and moderator at various industry conferences sponsored by the New York Business Forum, the New York Venture Capital Symposium, Garage.com, the Connecticut Venture Group, the New York New Media Association, Funding Post and various CLE program sponsors.
Publications/Presentations
Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2004, Mr. Reilly was a partner in the Business and Finance Group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the Business and Technology Group at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and the corporate group of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, where he was the head of the firm's venture capital and private equity initiative and the managing partner of the firm's Hartford office.
Bar and Court Admissions
Mr. Reilly is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia and Connecticut.
Education
J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1979 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
B.A., The University of Notre Dame, 1976 (with honors)
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