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Carmelo has practiced corporate and securities law throughout his 20-year legal career. Carmelo is known as a leader in the Texas venture capital community and was formerly the chairman of the San Francisco based Brobeck Business & Technology Group. Carmelo's primary focus is on life science, software, telecommunications, semiconductor, and energy sector companies. His practice includes:
advising companies and boards of directors on corporate governance issues
representing issuers and investment banking firms in public offerings and private financings (including PIPE, 144A and venture capital financings) and
representing acquirors and targets in a broad variety of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and other business combination transactions.
In addition to Carmelo's company practice, he has an active practice representing GPs and LPs of hedge, private equity, venture capital and real estate funds. These funds range from several tens of millions of dollars to multi - billion dollar funds.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Carmelo has been a market leader in the venture-backed and private equity market place throughout his career. A representative listing of successful companies and institutional clients Carmelo has advised over the course of his career include:
Representative Company Clients:
Acco Semiconductor
Active Power
Advanced Delivery Chemical Systems (ATMI)
Applied Science Fiction (Kodak)
Bluestar Communications (Covad)
Concero
Comverge, Inc.
CoVi Technologies
Crossroads Systems
Dazel Corporation (HP)
Dupont Photomasks (Toppan Photomasks)
Flashnet (Prodigy)
Hoover’s (Dun & Bradstreet)
iCeutica, Inc.
i2 Technologies
Inet Technologies (Tektronix)
Internet Security Systems (IBM)
Iroko Pharmaceuticals
Knowledge Discovery One (Net Perceptions)
LDR Spine
Naviant (Equifax)
Progressive Systems (Asyst)
Point Serve
Reddwerks
SBC Communications
SecureInfo Corporation
Sensory - View of America
Silicon Labs
Site Controls
Spinal Restoration
STAT Healthcare (Laidlaw)
Tivoli Systems (IBM)
Via Video (Polycom)
Voxpath Networks
Wilson Holdings
Xetel
Representative Institutional Clients:
Alloy Ventures
Austin Ventures
CenterPoint Ventures
Credit Suisse First Boston
Goldman, Sachs & Company
H.I.G. Ventures
HO2 Partners
Morgan Stanley
Path4 Ventures
Phoenix IP Ventures
SG Cowen
Safeguard Scientific
Sevin Rosen Funds
Stanford Group
Tejas Securities
Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company
Thomas Weisel
TL Ventures
Wachovia Securities
ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONS
Author
"Looking at Things From a Client's Perspective," Deal Strategies for Venture Capital and Private Equity Lawyers (2007)
"From Acorns to Oaks," Corporate Lawyer (2003)
PROFESSIONAL / CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
Member
State Bar of New York
State Bar of Texas
American Bar Association
Corporate Law Section
Listed
Profiled as one of the leading Technology: Corporate and Commercial lawyers in Texas, Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007)
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