Geoffrey W. Parnass, a member of the Firm, specializes in complex corporate transactions including private equity and venture capital matters. Mr. Parnass is experienced in a wide variety of corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions; private equity and leveraged buyout transactions; venture capital investments; joint ventures and technology licensing arrangements; bank financings, including asset-based lending; trademark registration; and recapitalization and work-out transactions. He also provides counsel in connection with the issuance of securities under Regulation D and registered public offerings under the Securities Act of 1933.
Mr. Parnass also provides general counsel services to business organizations. He counsels on contract, regulatory, intellectual property, litigation management and all other major areas affecting the legal profile of an enterprise, including securities law, commercial contracts, distribution agreements, antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property licensing and management, joint ventures, employment agreements and compensation structures and technology transfers. He has structured and documented a wide variety of marketing and new venture undertakings for manufacturing and service companies.
Mr. Parnass received a B.A degree from Vassar College, a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the Notes Editor of the Law Review, and an LLM degree from Yale Law School. He was associated with the corporate law departments of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York and served for eight years as Vice President and General Counsel of Hunter Douglas Inc., a billion-dollar manufacturer of home furnishing products.