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Partner Business Practice Group
Richmond (804) 788-8573 Phone (804) 788-8218 Fax
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Private Equity Private Investment Funds
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Practice focuses on corporate and securities transactions with a particular emphasis on private equity, private fund formations, joint ventures and related matters.
Relevant Experience
Mr. Seevers regularly represents:- private equity and other private investment funds in all aspects of their business, including formations, structuring, offerings, investments, acquisitions, financings, divestitures and compliance matters;
- institutional investors, including governmental and other benefit plans, with respect to investments in private equity and other private investment funds; and
- real estate ventures, including REITs, with respect to securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities laws compliance and corporate governance.
Mr. Seevers's fund and investment joint venture formation experience includes his representation of: - an NYSE-listed real estate finance company with respect to a $350 million joint venture to acquire distressed real estate loans and lots;
- a group of seasoned private equity executives in the structuring, capital raising and closing of a $250+ million middle market buyout fund;
- a life sciences venture capital fund with respect to several private equity fund formations;
- an emerging markets fund manager with respect to country specific private equity fund formations;
- an integrated real estate services firm in the formation of an office property acquisition joint venture with a state pension fund, related subscription line financing, and the subsequent expansion/reformation and refinancing of the joint venture;
- a real estate developer in the formation of an open-ended development joint venture with a New York based hedge fund;
- an investment bank in the structuring, capital raising and closing of an Indian real estate opportunity fund; and
- several institutional investors, including governmental plans, ERISA plans and a multinational insurance company, with respect to investments in more than 90 private investment funds, including private equity, real estate, loan, hedge, distressed debt and other funds.
Mr. Seevers's other private equity experience includes his representation of: - a group of private equity funds in the acquisition of a snack foods manufacturer, the initial and a subsequent refinancing of senior and mezzanine credit facilities and the ultimate sale of the company to another private equity fund;
- a private equity fund and other shareholders in the sale of a call management software company and simultaneous spin off of its knowledge-management technology and business; and
- a group of private equity funds in the formation of a platform company and its leveraged acquisition of two niche manufacturing companies and a branded apparel business.
Additional Experience
- Guest lecturer in corporate law classes at Washington and Lee University School of Law and University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law (2010)
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar
- Member, Virginia Bar Association
Awards and Professional Recognition
- Listed in "Virginia’s Legal Elite," Virginia Business magazine, 2005-2007
- Listed in "Virginia Super Lawyers," Richmond magazine, 2006-2009
- Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2007-2010
Education  - J.D., Washington and Lee University School of Law, magna cum laude, Editor in Chief, Washington and Lee Law Review, Order of the Coif, 1997
- B.A., University of Virginia, Foreign Affairs, 1992
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James Seevers, Jr.
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