HOWARD BOBROW is a business and transactional lawyer in the firm’s Business & Finance practice group and is a member of the firm's Executive Committee.  His practice is primarily devoted to mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital.

Mr. Bobrow is a trusted advisor to private equity funds, venture capital funds, and emerging growth companies.  He counsels private equity and venture capital funds and other institutional investors, as well as angel investors, on all aspects of acquisitions, dispositions, capital formation, and private placements.

Mr. Bobrow has a wide range of experience with structuring and closing a myriad of early-stage and growth-stage capital formation transactions, including technology validation, technology transfer, technology licensing, seed investment, early-stage investment and follow-on investment transactions.

Mr. Bobrow also represents private equity and venture capital funds in connection with their organization and formation, the fundraising process, governance matters, investments in portfolio companies, and compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers of Act of 1940.

Mr. Bobrow has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in the categories of Venture Capital and Corporate Law.  He has also been named a Leading Lawyer by Inside Business magazine and selected to Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars, compiled by Law & Politics magazine.

Mr. Bobrow serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Venture Association.  He has also guest lectured at the Weatherhead School of Management on the topics of the economics and structure of private equity and venture capital.