Powell Goldstein has one of the most active and highly regarded Private Equity practices in the Southeast. Our team crafts innovative, focused and efficient strategies to complete the deal. From monumental to smaller strategic deals, Powell Goldstein represents buyers and sellers of both private and public companies across many different industries and in all stages of the investment cycle.

Whether we represent the source of capital or the entrepreneur or company in search of growth capital, our goal is to provide business solutions to legal problems in all aspects of private investments, from the formation of the company through the IPO and other exit strategies. Powell Goldstein's attorneys incorporate all relevant disciplines - corporate, securities, tax, executive compensation and intellectual property - to provide a team that is tailored to serve our client's needs.

Together, we have represented:

• Numerous private equity funds located in the Southeast, focused on early-stage to middle-market companies.
• A prominent Atlanta-based private investment company in the formation of two investment funds--one designed for institutional investors and the other for individual investors--with the aggregate size of the two funds between $50 million and $60 million.
• The general partners of a prominent Atlanta-based investment company in forming a fund to acquire operating companies.
• A European venture capital company in developing an up to £100 million fund to invest in other existing funds throughout the European Community.
• A venture capital company in establishing a $75 million venture capital fund suitable for major U.S. pension plan investors as well as a follow-on $25 million fund.
• An asset manager and investment adviser regarding the proposed establishment of an up to $250 million fund to acquire, hold and manage distressed assets suitable for pension plan investors.
• A venture capital company in establishing a £25 million fund and a follow-on fund (with anticipated subscriptions in excess of £50 million), each suitable for U.S. pension investors to purchase minority interests in small capitalization companies publicly traded in Great Britain, as well as two additional venture capital funds suitable for U.S. employee benefit plan investors whereby commitments totaling £65 million were received.
• A major national bank as a lead investor in a fund with an anticipated size of between $40 million and $60 million to be formed by private industry for the purpose of investing in telecommunications and health and life science companies in Georgia and the Southeast.
• The investment manager and general partner in establishing an Atlanta-based venture capital fund with a size currently exceeding $20 million.
• A major Eastern European financial institution as shareholder of an investment management company formed in The Republic of Cyprus to serve as co-advisor to an existing British Virgin Islands emerging markets venture capital fund exceeding $25 million in size.
• Parties in transactions involving over 25 premier, nationally recognized funds.