Richard J. Colosimo focuses his practice on board-level governance of growing companies by advising CEOs, boards, founders, and investors in all aspects of strategic financial transactions. Rick gained experience in a range of corporate transactions (M&A, investments, and debt and equity transactions) and in structuring new businesses for start-up founders positioning themselves to raise capital.

background

Rick has combined front-line business roles in expanding businesses with specialty legal knowledge management projects with interim general counsel and CAO roles with independent director board positions. These unusual business experiences create a solid business foundation in finance and operations for Rick’s advice, no matter what the topic.

Rick has a wide array of legal experience on which to build: he has practiced in tri-state corporate boutiques; he practiced in both New York City and in Silicon Valley at large national law firms. He has been involved in thousands of negotiations across a wide variety of scenarios. In New York City, Rick practiced at Holland & Knight LLP, litigating mass torts involving pesticides, asbestos, and the crash of TWA Flight 800. He then practiced corporate and securities law at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP, in the Palo Alto, CA, office, where his practice included venture financing and mergers and acquisitions for start-ups, venture capital funds, E*Trade, and Cisco Systems.

Rick is a graduate of the Cornell Law School. Before law school, Rick was an Infantry officer in the U.S. Army stationed in Hawaii and Georgia. He is a graduate of the Officer Candidate, Airborne, and Ranger Schools. He has a BA in English from Allegheny College where he served on the Alumni Council for six years.

Education

• JD - Cornell University School of Law

• BA - Allegheny College, English, Cum laude, Alden Scholar
  

Admissions

• New York

• New Jersey