Robert E. Connolly

Rob leads Levenfeld Pearlstein’s Independent Sponsor team, co-leads its Private Equity team, and previously served as chair of the Corporate Practice Group.

His practice focuses on M&A, private equity, and corporate transactions in the middle market and lower middle market across multiple industries throughout the United States. He has extensive experience leading a wide spectrum of complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations, restructurings, securities offerings, and other business transactions.

Rob takes a client-centric approach and combines his deep transaction experience, legal knowledge, and business acumen to focus on the issues that matter to help his clients achieve successful outcomes that align with their business, risk tolerance, and objectives.

Rob has been recognized in mergers and acquisitions and corporate law by the Legal 500, Super Lawyers and Leading Lawyers.

Rob’s representative clients include:

• Independent sponsors, private equity funds and other financial sponsors
• Family offices
• Buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions transactions
• Portfolio companies of private equity firms
• Privately-held companies
• Professional service firms
• Fast-growing companies and venture-backed startups
• Real estate sponsors and investors
• Sophisticated entrepreneurs and investors

Rob’s areas of concentration include:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Co-investments, restructurings and recapitalizations
• Private investment transactions, including venture, growth, co-investment, and minority investments
• Private placements, capital raises, syndicated investments, fund formation and securities
• Strategic planning, complex business transactions and agreements
• Corporate governance, joint ventures and partnership/LLC/shareholder agreements