Alex Kaplun is an experienced corporate transactional attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing and emerging companies. Alex’s client’s include entrepreneurs, emerging companies, private equity and venture/growth capital funds, family offices and other corporations. He focuses on a variety of transactions, including:
- Initial structuring of early-stage ventures
- Equity arrangements and equity-based compensation
- Early-stage financings, including convertible notes and SAFEs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Venture capital and growth equity financings
- Recapitalizations and joint ventures
Representative Transactions
- Acquisition of chemical manufacturing facilities in Europe and Latin America.
- Substantial acquisitions for private equity funds of portfolio companies in the media space.
- Disposition of Excelsior Radio Networks, a leading independent network radio company providing sales representation services to over fifty national radio production companies and producing over one hundred different programs.
- Acquisition of several distribution companies throughout the U.S. by a world-leading office equipment manufacturer.
- Joint-ventures between a music and entertainment company and various online music delivery companies.
- Acquisition of a public company manufacturing corn-based ethanol and raising capital by means of Regulation S offering.
- Representing family-owned business OEM medical device manufacturers is a recapitalization transaction with a private equity fund and various follow-on financings.
- Representing venture capital funds In numerous investments in tech-enabled healthcare businesses.
- Representing venture capital funds in numerous Investments In cybersecurity businesses.
- Representing “Independent sponsors” In recapitalization transactions of leading brands In consumer goods products.
- Representing emerging growth companies In the tech-enabled healthcare space In numerous bridge rounds (convertible notes and SAFEs) and venture capital financing.
- Representing a venture capital fund In multiple investments in a developer of a single-cell multiplexing immunoassay and software suite focused on cancer-related applications.
- Representing a venture capital fund in multiple investments in, and the ultimate sale of, a unified marketing measurement SaaS company that allows marketers to optimize marketing budgets with greater speed and agility.
- Representing a venture capital fund In multiple Investments In a company in the space technology company.
Speaker/Author
- “Beyond the Top Line Price: Wisdom for Selling Your Business” Delaware Trust Webinar
- Faculty Visiting Professor, The Innovation Bridge Program, Merage Institute
- Guest Lecturer – Women Entrepreneurship Summit – “Analyzing Term Sheets”
- “Wearing a Collar,” TheMarker.com
- “America Is Not Solely Delaware,” TheMarker.com
- “Catholic Wedding,” TheMarker.com
- “Israeli tech lessons for U.S. Inventors”, Wind Power Engineering, November 2011
- Panelist, “Israel Start-up Nation”
Professional Activities
- Member, American Bar Association
- Director, Berggruen Residential Ltd., an Israeli real estate public company
- Founder and Board Member, The U.S. Israel Business Council, Inc.
- Board Member, American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals, Inc.
Education & Honors
- New York University School of Law LL.M.
- University of Wales, College Cardiff LL.B., with honors
Bar Admissions
- State of New York