Richard Catalano is an accomplished corporate attorney who focuses his practice on guiding emerging and high-growth companies, venture capital and private equity firms, strategic investors, and institutional investors through complex business transactions. He provides strategic counseling primarily in healthtech, life sciences, technology, Web3, consumer enterprise, blockchain, fintech and cloud and internet.
Richard advises clients and portfolio companies at all stages of growth, from friends and family financing rounds to late-stage equity financing and mergers and acquisitions. His in-depth experience negotiating numerous complex equity financing, mergers and acquisitions and other commercial agreements, including licensing, NFT collaborations, technology sourcing, blockchain network, manufacturing and supply, and marketing agreements allows him to put his clients’ needs first with a view toward growth and innovation.
Richard’s transactional expertise encompasses venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, debt financing and blockchain related agreements such as Simple Agreements for Future Tokens (SAFTs), token warrants, and token purchase agreements. Richard’s understanding and adeptness in navigating the complexities of such equity, debt, and blockchain transactions provides innovative solutions tailored to client needs.
In addition to his transactional work, Richard frequently counsel’s clients on all aspects of general corporate and securities law by guiding companies and business through formation and handling corporate governance responsibilities to equity incentives and employment issues, to IP and commercial transactions. Richard also sits in on many of his clients’ board meetings and takes their minutes. Additionally, venture capital firms regularly consult with Richard on fund formation and the deployment of their capital as well as overseeing their portfolio companies.