General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> October 4, 2004
ROBERT SCHWED specializes in working with private equity firms and their
portfolio companies. Mr. Schwed joined Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr LLP in the fall of 2002 after 24 years in the New York office of
Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt & Maynard, where he built a substantial
practice working with private equity firms and their portfolio companies
in corporate finance transactions. His extensive experience in the
private equity arena has facilitated the continuing expansion of the
corporate practice in Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP's New
York office. Mr. Schwed has been actively engaged in the private equity
industry throughout his career, representing venture capital and buyout
firms and other institutional investors in equity and subordinated debt
investments, public and private buyout transactions and workouts,
recapitalizations and other restructurings. His leveraged buyout
experience includes the acquisition of divisions or business units from
major industrial, financial services, healthcare, retailing, media and
communications companies, as well as the acquisition of public companies
in the computer, data processing, healthcare and communications
industries. He has also acted as general counsel to private equity
firms, including advising firms seeking to raise investment capital from
institutional investors. Mr. Schwed also has extensive experience in
representing the portfolio companies of private equity firms, primarily
in connection with public and private financing transactions, and in
mergers and acquisitions. He has acted as counsel to both acquiring and
acquired companies in acquisitions of private companies by public
companies and in mergers between public companies. Mr. Schwed has
advised special committees of boards of directors in takeover situations
and has served as a director of two public companies that were
eventually acquired by other public companies. He has also represented
various startup ventures, and has served as counsel to the issuers or
underwriters in a number of initial public offerings for software,
Internet, biotechnology, airline, healthcare, information services and
other companies. Mr. Schwed earned his JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard
Law School and holds a BA, cum laude, from Williams College. He is
admitted to the practice in the state of New York. Mr. Schwed is a
member of the Board of Directors at Project Reach Youth in Brooklyn, New
York. Profile
relationship between general partners and limited partners and the
relationship between general partners and portfolio companies.
