Ed represents clients in all aspects of corporate transactions and equity investments, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, complex commercial arrangements, and general corporate governance matters. With a focus on efficiently achieving his clients’ business goals, Ed employs a highly organized approach to guiding clients through the many moving pieces of a transaction.
Ed mainly advises private equity funds, venture capital investors, operating companies and entrepreneurs. His experience spans a variety of industries including B2B software and SaaS, energy, financial services, healthcare, health & beauty, infrastructure, logistics, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and transportation. In his practice, Ed often advises businesses with operations and activities around the country and world.
Ed is a member of the Firm’s Hiring Committee. He also has experience providing pro bono legal services for immigration matters and not-for-profit tax exemption matters.
Prior to joining Harter Secrest & Emery, Ed worked with Dechert LLP in New York City and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Pittsburgh. Ed began his career practicing in the New York City office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Ed advises and advocates for clients in all stages of the M&A process, from term sheets to closings, in both domestic and cross-border deals. He takes a client service-oriented approach to handling legal issues and is adept at drafting and negotiating agreements, coordinating due diligence, and managing transactional signings and closings.
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Ed counsels private equity and venture capital funds, and portfolio companies, in a broad range of corporate transactional matters and on the mechanisms available to them to fund their business ventures, manage corporate governance, and achieve their business goals. Leveraging the expertise of our employee benefits, executive compensation, labor, intellectual property, tax, real estate, environmental, and privacy and data security attorneys, he coordinates multiple works streams and offers clients sophisticated and creative structuring solutions.
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
- Member, Board of Trustees, Primary Hall Preparatory Charter School (Buffalo, NY)
- Member, Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western New York
- Admissions Interviewer for Prospective Undergraduate Students, Harvard University
HONORS & AWARDS
- Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for Venture Capital Law (2021-2022); Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships); Corporate Governance and Compliance Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2022-2023)
