Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP

Senior Partner: Edward Reitler

Firm Overview

Reitler is a premiere full-service law firm and leading venture firm headquartered in New York, with offices in Princeton and Los Angeles.​ For over 25 years, we have delivered exceptional counsel and work product to our clients by partnering with them in all phases of their growth. We have created a unique platform that provides critical legal and business advisory services for both emerging and established businesses. We have a high-touch approach to client engagement, and offer creative solutions to corporate business challenges in fields such as M&A, finance, fund formation, tax, commercial litigation, real estate, corporate governance, employment, intellectual property, and bankruptcy. We have nationally recognized venture capital, intellectual property, and admiralty practices.

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Main Areas of Practice

Venture Capital & Emerging Companies 

Consistently ranked Top 10 in Venture Capital deal activity per Pitchbook's Global League Tables, Reitler is a leading provider to the venture community. We have worked on 2,000+ venture financings since our founding and bring that wealth of experience to our clients in achieving their goals efficiently. We counsel on financings at every stage in the venture asset class: from seed, to Series A, to growth equity, to mid-market buy out work. Our clients include founders, angel investors, buy-out funds, venture capitalists, institutional investors, venture lenders, financial advisors and other participants in venture markets globally.

Private Equity & Funds 

Our Private Equity and Funds practice has guided both new and established funds through the process of structuring their alternative assets.​ The practice has formed U.S. and off-shore funds utilizing structures that complement each fund’s investment strategy. Our clients include private equity, venture capital and hedge funds that seek our expertise in fund formation and advice on issues pertaining to U.S. securities regulation, broker-dealers, investment companies, and investment advisors.​ The operation of an investment fund is a complex matter and our attorneys are sensitive to, and experienced in dealing with, the problems that can arise. The gamut of situations we have encountered provides knowledge and foresight, and we draw upon these when advising clients on entity structure and negotiating and preparing fund agreements.​ Our private equity and funds attorneys work closely with our securities practice and tax counsel to structure funds and their management companies in ways that are most efficient from a tax and operational point of view and that comply with the various regulations affecting private equity, venture capital and hedge funds.​

Mergers & Acquisitions 

Our Mergers & Acquisitions practice represents a diverse, international group of participants on both sell and buy sides and provides multi-faceted services that encompass the many complex aspects of these transactions.​ Our understanding of the transformational nature of M&A for companies and their stakeholders informs Reitler’s client-specific approach to each deal. We deliver high quality, timely service during this critical time for our clients.​ Our attorneys have represented public and private purchasers and sellers; commercial and investment banks; leveraged buyout funds; and senior, subordinated and ‘bridge’ lenders. Our M&A practice has represented clients in stock and asset acquisition and dispositions; mergers; strategic alliances; joint ventures; leveraged buy-outs; ‘roll-ups’;and recapitalizations and reorganizations.We frequently represent our venture capital backed clients in their sell side exits to both financial and strategic buyers.​

Corporate  

Reitler’s corporate attorneys are specialists in assisting businesses to enter, operate and grow. We have counseled hundreds of entrepreneurs starting new businesses and advised on company formation, equity structures, corporate governance, intellectual property rights and other vital issues.​ A growing company will, at different stages, likely need to protect intellectual property, acquire products or businesses or dispose of poorly performing ones, expand and incentivize its workforce, raise private or public equity or debt, and solidify corporate governance. The Corporate practice at Reitler takes a multi-faceted approach to each individual client. This involves understanding the immediate goals of each client, while also recognizing its longer term aspirations. The Practice’s track record spans multiple decades and has included the representation of clients in all manner of transactions. This deep set of experiences informs our philosophy of vigorously representing our clients in the present while never losing sight of future implications.