Dominic A. DiPuccio

Dominic represents entrepreneurs, emerging-growth and seasoned companies, high-net-worth investors, family offices, venture capital and private equity funds, real estate sponsors, and professional service firms in a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and business matters, including:

• counseling buyers and sellers on all aspects of M&A transactions.
• counseling owners, companies, investors, and sponsors in a wide variety of private financing and securities transactions including angel funding, venture capital, private equity, joint ventures, historic tax credits and preservation easements, and traditional bank lending.
• counseling law firms, accounting firms, and investment banking firms on organizational, governance, and ownership matters and strategic transactions.
• counseling clients on day-to-day business matters.

Dominic was formerly the chair of Taft’s Mergers and Acquisitions group.

Speeches

Presenter, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Lecture, “Real Estate Private Equity Joint Ventures – Key Terms,” Sept. 24, 2020. (Recording here).

Panelist, “Preparing for What’s Next – Succession Strategies,” The Entrepreneurship Institute’s 21st Annual President’s Forum of Cleveland, on May 16, 2019.

Judge and Presenter, Smart 50 Awards, Cleveland Smart Business Magazine, 2018-2021.

Publications

Co-author, “SBA Part Forty-Five: Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program Opens April 8, 2021,” Taft Law Bulletin, April 5, 2021.

Co-author, “SBA Part Thirty-Two: Wait! Don’t Apply for Forgiveness of Your PPP Loan Yet – You May Want to Take Advantage of New Changes to the Program First,” Taft Law Bulletin, Jan. 7, 2021.

Co-author, “SBA Part Thirty-One: PPP 1.0 Gets a Facelift, PPP 2.0 Is Introduced, and Other Benefits to Note in the Stimulus Act,” Taft Law Bulletin, Dec. 29, 2020.

Author, “Be mindful of benefits and risks when considering a rollover,” Crain’s Cleveland Business, Jan. 20, 2020.

Author, “Why I Loathe Materiality Scrapes (Unless I’m Representing the Buyer),” Crain’s Cleveland Business, Jan. 15, 2019.