Peter Rosenblum is co-chair of Foley Hoag's Private Equity Transactions Group. Peter is actively involved in the firm’s corporate and corporate finance practices, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, fund formation and investment, and other public and private offerings of securities.
Peter has broad experience structuring and executing mergers and acquisitions and other complex strategic transactions. His work has included numerous acquisitions and sales of public and private companies, tender offers, going private transactions, carve outs and divestitures, buyouts, co-investments, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He has particular expertise in developing transaction-specific offshore and cross-border structures and limited liability companies and other pass-through vehicles. His clients for this work include public and private companies, private equity firms, stockholders and other company owners and financial advisers. He regularly represents managements, boards of directors and corporate special committees involved in significant transactions.
Peter represents numerous investment advisors and managers of private equity and venture capital funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds, both in the United States and offshore, in connection with formation and operation of their funds and management companies, as well as their transactional matters. He regularly advises investors and issuers concerning investments in private funds, structuring and organization of custom-designed funds and other alternative investments.
Peter is principal outside counsel to public and private companies in technology, energy, life sciences, private equity, investment management, consulting and other industries. Peter advises investors and issuers in connection with private placements of equity and debt for early and later stage venture capital and private equity investments. He provides comprehensive representation concerning corporate governance, intellectual property strategies and licensing, management compensation and succession and liquidity events.
Peter was a Co-Managing Partner of Foley Hoag from 2000 to 2005 and served on the Executive Committee from 1997 to 2005 and from 2013 to 2016. He served as Chairman of the firm's Business Department from July 2008 through October 2011. Prior to entering the private practice of law, he served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Peter has lectured and taught classes at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston University School of Law, Duke University School of Law and Bentley University.