Wade Stribling advises clients on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, venture capital and growth equity investments, recapitalizations, debt and equity restructurings and workouts, private equity and mezzanine fund formations, and executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements. His clients include private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, which he represents in virtually all aspects of their business.

Wade serves as lead counsel in a wide variety of transactions, including change-in-control transactions involving stand-alone and integrated businesses of private and public companies, minority investments in private and public companies, cash and leveraged transactions, stock-for-stock mergers, going-private transactions, and senior and mezzanine debt financings. His transactions have ranged in value from several million dollars to more than one billion dollars, have been both domestic and cross-border, and have been across a wide array of industries, including regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services. He also regularly represents portfolio companies of private equity clients in all of their corporate needs, including acquisitions, financings, management incentive arrangements and general corporate counseling.

Wade connects entrepreneurs with investors and advises start-up companies in obtaining and negotiating angel and venture capital investments. In addition, Wade handles real estate matters, mostly centered on venture investments in, and the sale of, pooled assets in the hotel and apartment sectors.

Eversheds Sutherland

Eversheds Sutherland’s corporate attorneys serve the breadth of public and private companies in virtually every industry, with nearly every type of transaction.

Eversheds Sutherland helps clients understand the full range of business law, enabling them to grow and thrive. We constantly monitor the economic, regulatory and legislative environment so we can guide clients to new opportunities while minimizing risk. We represent both public and private companies in virtually every type of transaction, and our client list runs the gamut of industries.

Eversheds Sutherland works with clients to raise billions in public and private capital. Our attorneys address practically every corporate legal need, including general corporate advice, finance, mergers, acquisitions and other transformative transactions, corporate governance and compliance in an evolving regulatory environment. We work seamlessly with attorneys in the firm’s other practice areas to meet our clients’ business objectives, allowing clients to benefit from attorneys knowledgeable in each industry’s opportunities, hurdles and pitfalls. We oversee complex transactions and matters, and we bring a collaborative, integrated approach to solving problems.

We serve clients of all sizes, from entrepreneurs to Fortune 200 companies. Our clients include insurers, financial institutions, investment companies, mutual funds, underwriters, broker-dealers as well as in industries as diverse as energy, e-commerce, communications, retail, franchising, manufacturing, hospitality, health care, mining and aerospace and defense.