Private Equity Law Overview
Today’s private equity marketplace is complex, constantly evolving and is more competitive than ever before. We offer clients a practical and comprehensive understanding of the legal needs of companies receiving private equity or venture capital investments. Our seasoned private equity lawyers work closely with some of the nation’s largest and most prestigious private equity funds and venture capital firms, as well as numerous entrepreneurs, startups, emerging companies and closely held businesses.
The Exemplar team combines deep legal skills across numerous industries and elite business acumen to identify problems and solve them in a sensible and efficient manner. Our goal is to develop long-term relationships by accomplishing maximum consistency, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
Our Experience
Exemplar’s venture capital and private equity lawyer’s cover multiple aspects of the transactional arena involving public and private companies, including:
- the structuring and execution of majority buyouts and minority investments
- acquisitions (including buy- and sell-side deals, as well as negotiated and auction deals)
- financings (including 144A transactions and PIPEs), going-private transactions
- spin-off transactions.
No Hourly Bill, No Hourly Bull.
Venture Capital & Private Equity Law: Getting good legal advice for your business shouldn’t be painful. The Exemplar legal team is here to help your business thrive. That means taking the time to get to know you and your business, to understand your unique circumstances, challenges and goals. Exemplars unique structure allows our attorneys to provide relationships as a service, with only value-based pricing and no hourly billing.
Value-based pricing is transforming the legal industry. With value based pricing, the goal is to pay less for the effort and more for the results. When implemented properly, it promotes the following:
- reduces total legal spend
- increases predicability of budget
- Reduces billing disputes
- promotes law firm risk-sharing
- improves the productivity of attorneys
Exemplar Companies was one of the first business law firms in American History to abandon the hourly bill over 15 years ago. We prioritize forming genuine relationships with the clients we serve, and genuine relationships don’t happen when you bill by the hour.

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Publications
The Advantages of Value-Based Pricing
Although value-based pricing is a hot topic, many accounting and law firms continue to bill hourly. An hourly rate emphasizes time, which shifts the focus from value received to hours taken to complete a project. The alternative to billing by the hour is a value-based...
Major Crowdfunding Updates To Be Aware Of In 2021
On November 2, 2020 the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to amend rules in order to simplify and improve the complex regulations to the Crowdfunding Regulations under the JOBS Act. We have outlines major crowdfunding updates in 2021 below: What is...
5 Reasons Law Firms are Abandoning the Hourly Bill
As many business owners have experienced, a simple 10 minute phone call to your lawyer to ask a few questions ends up showing up on the bill for hundreds of dollars. Many clients today feel underrepresented and over billed. The hourly bill promotes inefficiencies and...
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Our Locations
Los Angeles /
Santa Monica, CA
100 Wilshire Blvd Suite 700
Santa Monica, CA. 90401
Phone - 617-542-7400