CHOATE HALL & STEWART LLP

Practice Focus

Private Equity:  representation of private equity and venture capital funds and their portfolio companies in investment, fund formation and buy-out transactions in a variety of industries, including healthcare, technology, financial services, energy and clean-tech.

Public Company & Securities:  public offerings (including IPOs) of equity and debt securities and ongoing public company representation including ’34 Act reporting.

Mergers & Acquisitions:  leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and going private transactions for companies in many industries.

Previous Experience

Mr. Feldman’s prior experience includes serving as General Counsel of American Dental Partners, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADPI).

Representative Engagements

• $640 million sale of private-equity backed nursing home operator to large buyout fund.
• Formation of first-time private equity fund and subsequent transactions involving buyouts and recapitalizations of business services company, executive training company, life sciences company and oil and gas services business.
• Leveraged buyout of healthcare services company.
• $75 million leveraged recapitalization of electrical supplies distribution company.
• $70 million IPO of on-demand software company.
• $60 million IPO of life sciences company.
• $770 million merger of equals and subsequent $110 million acquisition by publicly-traded identity solutions company.
• $172 million public offering by IT services company.
• Minority investment by private equity firm in concierge medicine company.
• Multiple acquisitions of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities by private-equity backed consolidator.
  

 Selected Publications, News and Presentations

• “Negotiating Sell-Side Engagement Letters,” co-author, Buyouts Magazine, August 2010. 
• “Middle Markets,” moderator, MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium, April 2010.
• "Beyond the First Round," panelist, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference, February 2010. 
• "Executing Healthcare Buyouts During this Tough Environment," moderator, Healthcare Buyouts – Where PE Investors Can Find Opportunities After Obama’s Healthcare Reforms, Capital Roundtable Healthcare MasterClass, New York, November 2009. 
• “The Complexity of Compromise,” co-author, Mergers & Acquisitions, August 2009. 
• “Opportunities in the Middle Market,” moderator, MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium, April 2009.
• “Antidote,” quoted, PrivateEquityCentral.net, December 2008.
• “Money, Medicine, and Regulatory Minefields — Navigating Healthcare Services Buyouts” co-author, Buyouts Magazine, April 2006.

Professional and Community Involvement

Mr. Feldman is a member of the American Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association.