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Experience and Background
Robert M. Friedman has extensive experience in forming venture capital funds, buyout funds, mezzanine debt funds, and other private investment funds, both onshore and offshore, making seed investments into hedge funds and in private investing generally. Mr. Friedman has counseled clients on establishing funds for investment in the United States, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, and Poland.
Mr. Friedman has worked on numerous corporate finance and M&A transactions, including public and private offerings of securities, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and venture capital investments.
Bar Admissions
- Member, New York Bar
Significant Representations
Some examples of private investment fund formation representations include:
-- Franklin Templeton in its formation of a global emerging markets fund
-- Israel venture capital fund supported by an OPIC guarantee
-- Polish private investment funds supported by Polish American Enterprise Fund and EBRD
-- Capital E in its formation of a fund to acquire secondary interests in established private equity companies
-- Globis Corporation in its formation of a private equity fund investing in Japan
-- Apax France in its formation of a private equity fund investing in France
-- Formation of a venture capital fund specializing in digital media company investments
-- Formation of investment club to acquire distressed real estate debt from banks in the U.S.
-- Formation of mezzanine debt fund to invest in the U.S. on behalf of bank sponsored group
-- Formation of mezzanine debt fund to invest in the U.S. on behalf of independent group
Education
Yeshiva University, B.A., cum laude, 1981
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 1984, Notes and Comments Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal
Publications and Lectures
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