Paul Mitchell JD

Paul Mitchell JD General Information

Biography

Mr. Paul Mitchell serves as Partner, Corporate and Securities Practice Group at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman. Throughout Mr. Mitchell's legal career, he has focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, fund formations, complex corporate transactions, and technology licensing. He assists venture capital firms with investments in young technology companies, including the negotiation and preparation of stock purchase agreements, certificates of incorporation, shareholders agreements, and voting rights agreements. When working with entrepreneurs and start-up companies, Mr. Mitchell's uses his extensive business background, which includes being the President of a small service company, the Assistant General Counsel for a public children's toy manufacturer, and General Counsel for a technology start-up that raised $90 million in venture capital and debt financing, to advise and assist with capital raising and growing company issues. In his mergers and acquisition practice, Mr. Mitchell counsels many serial entrepreneurs. He has overseen a broad range of transactions, from the purchase of a small consignment store to a $580 million transaction involving the sale of a private family business to a public company.