Dr. Eric Belsley, a partner in our corporate department, is a co-chair of our private funds practice. Eric’s practice focuses on the representation of private equity (including buyout, credit, and other strategies) and venture capital funds and their sponsors in all aspects of their business, including fund formation, management company/GP structuring, and transactions. He represents a wide range of fund managers, from well-known managers with billions of dollars in AUM to start-up and emerging managers.
Eric brings to bear perspectives and skills not traditionally found with many private fund lawyers. Eric’s unusual background (for a lawyer) as a math Ph.D. provides him with a differentiated toolset for solving clients’ issues analytically and creatively. He also has deep insight into clients’ need for practical, efficient, business-oriented advice, grounded in his experience founding the Mac Resource Page, a daily e-zine about Macintosh computers he sold to Price.com in 2001.
Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 2005
Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1993
Yale University, B.A. in Mathematics, magna cum laude, with distinction in the major, 1988
Bar and Court Admissions
BAR ADMISSIONS
Massachusetts
Experience
Represents Golub Capital, a market-leading middle-market lender with over $75 billion under management, including in the formation of its flagship Golub Capital Partners and opportunistic GEMS private credit funds, its separately managed accounts, its internal operations, and Advisers Act compliance matters
Represents Energize Capital, a venture capital firm with over $1.6 billion under management investing in climate solutions that enables the transition to a digitized and decarbonized energy system through its ventures and endurance funds, including in the formation and operation of its investment funds and Advisers Act compliance matters
Represents Mill Road Capital, a private equity firm with over $750 million under management focused on publicly traded micro-cap companies in the U.S. and Canada, including in its formation, the formation and operation of its buyout funds, and Advisers Act compliance matters
Represents Bolt, a pre-seed venture capital firm focused on the intersection of software and physical goods, in the operation of its investment funds and compliance matters
Represented Clean Energy Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage clean energy innovations, including in its formation and the formation and operation of its first two venture capital funds
Represented Wamda MENA Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in the UAE and Jordan focused on making investments in technology companies in the MENA region, including in its formation and the formation of its initial venture capital fund
Represented True Green Capital Management, an institutional asset manager specializing in distributed power generation, in the formation of a private equity fund holding a portfolio of commercial solar PV projects
Represents Cue Ball Capital, a venture capital firm, in its investments, acquisitions, and exits, including serving as general outside counsel to its portfolio company MiniLuxe, Inc., a high-end chain of nail salons, and representing its portfolio company ShapeUp, Inc. as general outside counsel and in the sale of ShapeUp to Virgin Pulse, Inc., a leading provider of social wellness solutions to organizations worldwide
Represented OMNI Orthopaedics, Inc., a pioneer in robotic-assisted total knee replacement, as general outside counsel and in its acquisition by Corin USA Limited, an affiliate of U.K. international orthopedic company the Corin Group, backed by the private equity firm Permira
Represented Chiral Technologies, Inc. (a part of Daicel Corporation), the global market leader in enantioselective chromatography, in its acquisition of Arbor Biosciences, a pharmaceutical services firm that generates oligonucleotide pools using massively parallel DNA synthesis technology
Represents Nic+Zoe, a women’s clothing retailer and wholesaler, as general outside corporate counsel
Represents Dumpling Daughter, a Boston-based restaurant chain and provider of consumer packaged goods
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Member of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (2022 to Present)
Teaching Assistant for Professor Jane Kent Gionfriddo, Boston College Law School (2004-2005)
Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Miami, FL (1995-1999)
Course Head and Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (1989-1993)
Other Publications
"Rates of convergence of random walk on distance regular graphs," PROB. TH. AND REL. FIELDS 112, 493-533 (1998)
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