In recent weeks, the lateral market for emerging companies and venture capital attorneys has seen significant activity. As demand among early-stage companies increases and more mature entities begin to notice signs of a mergers and acquisitions rebound, several notable firms have expanded their ECVC practices. Firms such as Blank Rome, Lowenstein Sandler, and Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas have all recently announced new additions to their teams. Moreover, Sidley Austin has brought in new leadership for its venture capital fund formation practice. Martin Wellington, Sidley Austin’s newly minted ECVC leader, highlighted the sector’s resilience, noting, “One of the things that is very interesting about this sector, just in terms of the business cycle, is there’s a fair amount of activity even when the overall market is weaker.”
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