Peter Rosenblum counsels a broad range of clients in diverse industries concerning business and regulatory matters, financing strategies and structuring of corporate transactions. He is actively involved in the firm’s corporate and corporate finance practices, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, private equity and other public and private offerings of securities.
Peter has broad experience structuring and executing mergers and acquisitions and other transactions for public and private clients. He regularly advises investors and issuers in connection with private placements of equity and debt for early and later stage private equity investments. Peter has structured numerous buyouts, recapitalizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances involving complex applications of debt and equity securities. He has particular expertise in developing transaction-specific offshore and cross-border structures and limited liability company and other pass-through vehicles and in counseling managements and corporate special committees involved in significant transactions.
His clients include venture capital and private equity funds, hedge funds and other private investment funds, both in the US and offshore, that invest in public and private securities, private equity transactions, international forestry assets and other alternative investments. He also provides comprehensive representation to companies in technology, energy, life sciences, investment management, consulting and other industries concerning corporate governance, financings, management compensation and succession and liquidity events. Peter represents numerous registered investment advisors and managers of private investment funds and hedge funds, both onshore and offshore. Peter also works with high technology, energy and life sciences clients on intellectual property strategies and protection, licensing and related matters.
Peter served as Chairman of the firm's Business Department from July 2008 through October 2011. He was a Co-Managing Partner of Foley Hoag from 2000 to 2005 and a Member of its Executive Committee from 1997 to 2005. 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 also lectured and taught classes at Harvard Business School and Boston University School of Law.
Bars and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Education
- Amherst College, B.A., summa cum laude
- Yale University, M.A.
- Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude