Peter Bogdanow

Peter’s mergers and acquisitions and private equity experience includes representing both buyers and sellers in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, restructurings and minority investments, including the representation of the following:

• ZaZa Energy LLC, a private held oil and gas exploration and production company, in its pending combination with Toreador Resources corporation, a publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company;
• IESI, a large United States non-hazardous waste management company, in acquisitions of various companies having an aggregate value in excess of $300 million;
• Trinity Hunt Partners, in acquisitions and sales of portfolio companies;
• vAuto, Inc. (a high-tech automotive inventory management tool and the second fastest growing software company in the country) in its sale to AutoTrader.com;
• Controlling shareholder of private company in the leveraged recapitalization of one of its portfolio companies, which resulted in the sale of a majority of the shareholders equity and debt interests in the portfolio company;
• Manufacturing company in the purchase of a manufacturing plant and the associated business line from a public manufacturing company.

Peter’s venture capital experience includes representation of sponsors in the organization and financing of new ventures as well as investors providing seed or later stage capital to private companies. He also has advised companies on the offering of securities in the public and private markets as well as on their general reporting requirements under the 1934 Act. His experience includes representation of the following:

• Individual investor in preferred stock investment and restructuring of a medical device company;
• Venture capital fund in Series A round investment in three local companies;
• Two public pharmaceutical companies in PIPE transactions;
• Media company in preferred equity financing round with large institutional investor;
• Technology company in bridge financing consisting of convertible notes and warrants; and
• Investor in data management company in preferred equity financing.

In addition, Peter has advised individual investors and private equity funds on the formation of and investment in private equity funds and venture capital funds and fund managers on compliance obligations, including registration requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.  He has significant experience representing investors in the secondary market for interests in private equity funds. Examples of his experience in this area include the representation of the following:

• Large fund of funds in the secondary purchase of limited partnership interests in over 50 private equity funds;
• Large institutional investor in the investment in a distressed debt fund;
• Management company in the creation of a secondary fund of existing portfolio companies;
• Individual investor in evaluation of various investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, distressed debt funds and venture capital funds; and
• Management company in the negotiation of employment arrangements with principals of a newly established healthcare fund.

Peter’s finance experience includes representing both borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured credit facilities, bridge financing and other financing arrangements, including warrants, convertible notes and other instruments, including the representation of the following:

• Media company in post Chapter 11 lending facility;
• Local technology company and pharmaceutical company in bridge financing;
• Media broadcasting company and chemicals company in syndicated lending facilities;
• Broker-dealer in liquidity facility secured by investment securities; and
• Sponsor in leveraged acquisition of transportation company.