Alex Kaufman is a Silicon Valley lawyer who advises investors, operators, founders, and C-suite executives on all aspects of the private-equity ecosystem, including capital raising, investing, buying and selling companies, corporate governance, and other business matters. His clients include internationally preeminent technology-focused buyout and growth equity funds as well as start-ups and emerging growth companies for which Kaufman acts in an outside general-counsel capacity. In addition to his focus on software and technology, Kaufman has led transactions in a variety of other industries, including real estate, hospitality, food and beverage, media, shipbuilding, manufacturing, and professional services.

Kaufman regularly advises clients and leads negotiations in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts, recapitalizations, and other complex corporate transactions. He is also adept across a wide range of equity-financing products and structures—including warrants, simple agreements for future equity, convertible notes, and preferred equity—and regularly counsels some of the world’s largest asset managers and private credit funds on structuring minority equity investments.

Kaufman has represented a wide range of leading middle-market technology-focused investors in numerous platform and add-on acquisitions, divestitures, and minority investments. Representative clients include Point72 Hyperscale and Point72 Ventures, Symphony Technology Group, Vector Capital, Abry Partners, Oakley Capital, Raven Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Sixth Street Partners, AllianceBernstein Private Credit Investors, LINK Mobility, Hanwha Systems, and SBE Entertainment.