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
professional / civic involvement
• Boston Lawyers Group, Chairman
• Boston Bar Association, Corporate Law Committee, Chairman (1995-1997)
• Boston Bar Association, Business Law Section, Chairman (1997-1999)
• Ceres, Inc., Director
• Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE), Business and Commercial Law Curriculum Committee
• American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations, Member
SPEECHES AND CONFERENCES
• “Q&A with Foley Hoag’s Peter Rosenblum,” featured, Private Equity Law 360, December 2011
• “Preparing for Exits: Starting Early,” ENET (2011)
• “VCs and Angels: Optimizing Exits,” Angel Capital Association (2011)
• “Negotiating with the Big Dogs for Exits,” a workshop, Angel Capital Association (2011)
• “The Nuts and Bolts of Executing Successful Exits,” webinar, Angel Capital Association, Angel Capital Education Foundation and Foley Hoag LLP (2011)
• Dodd-Frank Act and Regulatory Changes: Landmark Changes for Fund Managers and Investment Advisers,” webinar, Practising Law Institute (2011)
• “Investment Funds,” A Roundtable Discussion, Boston University School of Law/Chicago-Kent Law School (2010)
• “Boston Boot Camp: New Registration Requirements,” Alternative Investment Financial Executives Association (2010)
• “Sidecar Funds: A Workshop,” Angel Capital Association (2010)
• Impact of Changes in the Economy on Venture Capital, Northeastern School of Law: Entrepreneurship Panel Series (2010)
• “Dodd-Frank and the New Regulatory Regime for Advisers,” ALI-ABA Audio Webcast and Telephone Seminar (2010)
• Moderator, “Raising Capital in Troubled Times,” Association of Corporate Counsel-New England (2010)
• “A Look to the Future,” Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation 2010, Practising Law Institute (2010)
• “Hedge Fund Regulation and Compliance: Investor Concerns - Side Pockets,” Financial Research Associates, LLC (2010)
• “Q&A with Foley Hoag’s Peter Rosenblum,” featured, Mergers & Acquisitions Law 360 (2009)
• “Mutual Funds Under New Administration, Litigation & Regulation,” A Roundtable Discussion, Boston University School of Law/Chicago-Kent Law School (2009)
• “SEC Update,” Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting (2009)
• “Fundamentals of Investment Adviser Regulation/Marketing,” Practising Law Institute (2009)
• “Everything You Wanted To Know About Sidecar Funds,” webinar, Angel Capital Association (2009)
• “Corporate Governance Considerations for Distressed Businesses” and “Pursuing Out-of-Court Restructurings,” Foley Hoag LLP (2009)
• Solar Project Structure and Finance, Solar in Boston/Solar in America (2009)
• “Tricks and Traps of Corporate 'Intrapreneurship' and Entrepreneurial Investment: Getting the Most Out of a New Business,” Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting (2008)
• “The ABCs of Investment Adviser Regulation/Marketing,” Practising Law Institute (2006-2008)
• “Understanding Capital Structures,” Corporate Practice: MCLE Basics Plus! (f/k/a Corporate Basics), MCLE (1991-2011)
• “Hedge Funds,” Investment Management Products: Mutual Funds and Beyond, ALI-ABA (2007)
• “Investment Adviser Regulation,” ALI-ABA (2006-2007)
• “Hedge Fund/Private Adviser Developments,” Investment Management Regulation, ALI-ABA (2004-2006)
• “Drafting a Successful Collaboration Agreement,” Pharmaceutical Strategy Series, Alliance Management Congress (2004)
• “Offshore Funds,” Investment Management Regulation, ALI-ABA (1995-2003)
• “International and Cross-Border Agreements,” Negotiating and Drafting Major Business Agreements, Insight Information (2002-2005)
• “Funding Biotech in the 21st Century: Public Offerings,” Bio 2000 (2000)
• “Management of Intellectual Property in Collaborations,” Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (1998)
• “Corporate Fiduciary Duties in Massachusetts and Delaware,” How to Incorporate and Counsel a Business, MCLE (1984-1998)
• “Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances,” The Directors Roundtable National Conference for Corporate Counsel: Boston (1997)
• “Technology Transfer in Cross-Border Acquisitions and Divestitures,” Licensing Executives Society (1996)
• “Structures of Cross-Border Transactions,” Bio ’96 (1996)
• “Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances,” Smart Card Forum (1996)
• “Raising Debt and Equity in Difficult Times,” Foley, Hoag & Eliot (1990)
• “Creative Debt Financing Strategies for Corporate Managers,” Foley, Hoag & Eliot (1989)
• Chairman, “Leveraged Acquisitions: the Process; the Players; the Problems,” MCLE (1987)
• Chairman, “Acquisitions 1986: Asset Acquisitions and Corporate Partnering,” MCLE (1986)
publications
• Editor,
A Practical Guide to Massachusetts Limited Liability Companies (Boston 1996-2011)
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Compensation for Angel Group Leadership, ACEF Newsletter (2009)
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Attorney Recommendation: Writing and Negotiating Term Sheets with a View toward Success, ACEF Newsletter (2008); also published in Annual Editions: Entrepreneurship 10/11 (2009)
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Offshore Investment Advisers and Overview of Institutional and Offshore Advisory Activity in C. Kirsch, Investment Adviser Regulation (New York 2006, 2008)
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Organization of a Private Investment Fund: Basic Structural and Legal Issues in C. Kirsch, Financial Product Fundamentals (New York 2006, 2009)
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Understanding Capital Structures, in L. Gennari, et al., Starting Up and Advising an Emerging Massachusetts Business (Boston 2001, 2004)
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Fiduciary Duties of Directors, Officers and Stockholders of Massachusetts Corporations, in S. Keller et al., Massachusetts Business Lawyering (Boston 1991)
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Creative Debt Financing in the Venture Capital Environment, in S.J. Lee, Venture Capital Manual (Boston 1990)
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“Bodio v. Ellis and Zimmerman v. Bogoff,” Broadening the Fiduciary Obligations of Shareholders of Close Corporations, 33B.B.J. 22 (1989)