Richard L. Catalano

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.

Practice Areas

Representative Matters

Represented a venture capital firm as the lead investor by negotiating the financing agreements of a fintech company’s $60 million Series F preferred equity offering

Represented an energy tech company in a $40 million Series A preferred equity offering which included a $27 million secondary

Represented a fintech company focused in education in a $25 million Series Seed preferred equity offering which included a $10 million secondary

Represented sports technology company in being acquired for $65 million into another company

Represented a SaaS company focused in automotives in their Series A and Series B preferred equity offering as well as represented such company in being acquired in their very successful $55 million

Represented a blockchain company to convert $50M in outstanding debt, which was in the form of various types of crypto (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Binance Coin and USD Coin)

Represented a technology company focused in car rentals in their $35 million Series B offering which also included a company reorganization

Represented a venture capital firm as the lead investor by negotiating the financing agreements of a fintech company’s $35 million Series B preferred equity offering

Represented a CDMO company in their $25 million Series B offering, $15 million Series C offering, and $10M convertible debt offering

Represented a venture capital firm as the lead investor by negotiating the financing agreements of a technology company focused in data processing in their $30 million Series C-1 preferred equity offering

Represented a technology company focused in underwriting multifamily real estate transactions in an acquihire in which the parent company received a complex $25 million simple agreement for future equity in exchange for the sale of such company

Represented a strategic investor in their purchase of a $25 million convertible note

Represented a venture capital firm as the lead investor by negotiating the financing agreements of a biotechnology company’s $25 million Series C preferred equity offering

Represented a bank in their $15 million equity investment into a technology company focused in the mortgage industry

Represented a pharmaceutical company in their $15 million Series C preferred equity offering

Represented a pharmaceutical company in their $10 million Series A preferred equity offering

Represented a strategic investor in their $10 million investment into a 3D printing technology company

Represented a strategic investor in their $8.5 million investment into a computer chip cooling technology company and reviewed the investment documents when such company was acquired for $80 million

Represent a fintech company focused in the financial services industry in their $8 million Series B offering

Represented a technology company focused in real estate in their $5 million Series B offering which also include a $2.5 million secondary

Represented a technology company focused in hospitality in their $5 million Series A offering

Represented and advised multiple investors as the lead investor in hundreds of domestic and foreign (India, UK, Asia and Europe) convertible debt offerings and early to late stage preferred equity financing, with such investments ranging from $100,000 to $25,000,000

Assisted multiple venture capital firms in forming their fund, ranging in fund size of $5 million to over $150 million

Prior Experience

• Ballard Spahr LLP, Associate
• Kimelberg PLLC, Associate
• Purrington Moody Weil LLP, Associate

Education

Admissions

Awards

The Best Lawyers in America, 2023-2025

• Recognized in practice area of Tax Law (New York)

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