Brian P. Slough

Of Counsel

Brian P. Slough serves as a trusted advisor and outside counsel to a broad array of clients on various governance and operational issues. His practice focuses on corporate governance, debt and equity offerings, majority and minority investments, private capital markets and venture investments, recapitalizations, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Brian assists clients throughout the business cycle, from initial company formation and general governance to financings, M&A, and initial public offerings. He also represents buyers and target companies in public-private and private-private business transactions.

Brian advises clients from a broad variety of industries including technology, software, artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, retail, finance, and healthcare. Brian helps institutional, sovereign wealth, family office, venture capital, corporate venture capital, private equity, and angel investor clients across these industries to structure and implement investments and manage portfolio companies. He also represents private and public companies, providing general corporate and strategic advice on financings, partnerships, joint ventures, and M&A transactions, as well as inbound, outbound, and cross-border transactions.

In many of these transactions, Brian draws upon his experience in intellectual property protection, technology, licensing, corporate governance, dispute resolution, executive compensation, labor and employment, and tax law. Brian also uses his knowledge of evolving market legal trends, which he continuously develops by representing a diverse group of clients, to achieve successful client outcomes. Brian’s diverse legal practice and business background enable him to service clients holistically.

Brian cultivates an atmosphere of congeniality and collaboration to strengthen stakeholder relationships. He understands a client’s business goals and acts as a facilitator of those goals.

Vondy Inc., an emerging company developing an all-in-one AI platform, in its initial formation, SAFE financing, and governance
Employee Cycle Inc., an emerging company that markets and sells an adaptable software analytics dashboard to help make human resources decision-making smarter and more data-driven for its business customers, in its $2.5 million Series Seed financing round led by Black Operator Ventures
Stimulus Inc., an emerging company that aims to help companies make better purchasing decisions by leveraging data and analytics through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, in its $3 million Series Seed financing led by Impellent Ventures with participation from Collab Capital and Converge VC
Li Industries Inc., a climate tech company developing next-generation lithium-ion battery recycling technologies, in its $7 million Series Seed financing from Khosla Ventures, Shell Ventures, and Xerox Ventures
Axon Enterprise Inc. as lead investor in the $30.5 million Series C financing of Dedrone Holdings Inc., a leading global drone security company
Navrogen Inc., a preclinical biotechnology company focused on the discovery of tumor-produced humoral immuno-oncology factors, in its $3 million equity financing led by Tellus BioVentures along with existing investors
KIRKBI A/S in the $2 billion financing of Epic Games, a video game and software developer and publisher
Greystone Commercial Mortgage Capital in its minority investment into Passco Companies LLC, a real estate investment firm

GIC

Substantial venture capital direct investments with an aggregate investment value of more than $1 billion
Lead investor in the $240 million Series D round of investment for Grafana Labs, a leading developer of open and composable operational dashboards

CapitalG

CapitalG on substantial venture capital direct investments with an aggregate investment value of more than $1 billion
$145 million Series B financing round of Magic AI, a public benefit corporation that is developing artificial intelligence frontier-scale code models and products
$150 million Series C funding of Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform for collectors
$40 million Series B financing of MANTL, a digital account opening solution for banks and credit unions
$120 million Series C financing of Webflow Inc., a technology company that provides website development tools
$168 million Series C financing of Orca Security Ltd., an Israeli security company that specializes in providing integrated cloud-based security solutions to streamline IT system security and regulatory compliance
$75 million Series B financing of Armis Security Ltd., an Israel-based agentless internet of things security solution that lets enterprises see and control any device or network
$50 million Series C Common Stock financing of Niantic, a software development company that is best known for developing augmented reality mobile games
$300 million Series C financing of Unqork Inc., a software company that helps large companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications without writing code
$700 million Series B financing of Digital Currency Group, the parent company of several businesses in the crypto space

Comcast Ventures

Series A financing of EvaBot, a provider of a smart virtual assistant app intended to send personalized gifts
$21 million Series A financing of Zapata Computing, a developer of enterprise software for quantum computing solutions to enable accessible, commercial high-performance computing

Aramark

Strategic partnership with Patient Engagement Advisors, a company that delivers a technology platform that connects patients with transition specialists to help them navigate social determinants of health issues and solve for patient needs that extend through post-discharge care
Investment in Starr Restaurants, the owner and operator of multi-concept restaurants

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Syracuse University College of Law, J.D.
University of Delaware, B.S., accounting

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