Terms of the Deal

Taft’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice provides sophisticated advice to private equity and venture capital funds, businesses ranging from emerging growth and owner managed companies to NYSE corporations, and real estate and investment partnerships.

At Taft, we work as one team, driven and committed to helping you succeed. Our attorneys listen and understand that innovative, value creating solutions help our clients reach their goals. Our collaborative approach, advanced technological resources and depth of services can transform what you expect from your legal team.

The firm practices across a wide range of industries, in virtually every area of law, including Bankruptcy, Business and Finance, Environmental, Health and Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Litigation, Private Client, Real Estate and Tax.

Since 1885, Taft has maintained a constant focus: to provide clients, both large and small, with legal advice and services that meet the highest possible standards.

Although this resource is intended to provide a collection of terms and phrases, often used colloquially in a variety of business and corporate finance transactions, these terms and phrases may be used differently from place to place or from time to time. Moreover, definitive transaction documents often specify in much greater detail the actual terms and conditions of a transaction utilizing these underlying concepts and will govern their actual meanings.