Joshua E. French
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Overview
Joshua E. French is a partner in Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department. He focuses his practice on advising clients in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity finance, corporate governance, business succession planning, and formation matters.
Clients in all stages of their business life cycle engage Josh to serve as their outside general counsel. He has extensive experience advising privately-held emerging and middle-market companies, as well as family-owned and generational businesses, on navigating corporate formation, succession planning, fundraising, and liquidity events. Senior management at companies in a wide range of industries work closely with Josh to solve their complex business challenges. Additionally, Josh serves as lead counsel to venture capital investors in connection with venture and growth equity investments in operating companies as well as the management of such investors’ portfolio companies.
Notable Experience and Client Impact
- Represented Great American Mining, Inc., a Bitcoin mining company that provides a utilization solution for oil and gas producers that have stranded energy that cannot be brought to market, in its sale to Crusoe Energy Systems, LLC.
- Represented iResearch, a leading multi-specialty clinical research center with locations in Decatur, GA and Savannah, GA, in connection with its acquisition by CenExel.
- Represented Vestigo Ventures in connection with its closing of Vestigo Ventures Fund II, L.P. with $117.3 million total fund commitments.
- Represented Shepley Wood Products, the premier building supply company for Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Southeastern Massachusetts, in its acquisition by Kodiak Building Partners, a Denver-based building products distribution platform.
- Represented ALM Works, Inc., the developer of software products to empower project managers around the world with visibility and control, in connection with its acquisition by Tempo Software, a leading provider in team time management and productivity-enhancing solutions.
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Advised Abveris (formally known as AbX Biologics, Inc.), a privately-held in vivo antibody discovery services company, in connection with its acquisition by Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a leading and rapidly growing synthetic biology and genomics company that has developed a disruptive DNA synthesis platform to industrialize the engineering of biology.
- Represented Lallemand USA in the acquisition of Scott Laboratories, a leading supplier of fermentation and filtration products in the wine and specialty beverage industry.
- Advised The Living Apothecary, a probiotic water kefir maker based in Oakland, California, in a $1.4 million financing round led by L.A. Libations and Venice Brands.
- Represented Innovation Associates, a majority family-owned business spanning multiple generations that is a leading provider of software-enabled pharmacy automation solutions, in its acquisition by a consortium of private equity investors.
- Represented Globe Composite Solutions, a supplier of engineered composite products for naval, defense and industrial customers in its acquisition by ESCO Technologies (NYSE: ESE).
- Represented Ce3, a clinical research organization providing early phase clinical development services to the biotechnology industry, in the sale of its business to Catalyst Clinical Research.
- Represented Location Inc., a leading provider of geographic data science and predictive, location-based analytics, to its strategic partner CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX).
- Represented T3 Expo, LLC, the general contractor for creating shareable moments™ for tradeshows and corporate events, in its financing with MB Capital Fund IV, LLC.
- Represented a leading provider of owner’s project management services in the New England region in connection with its acquisition.
- Represented a leading single-source provider of fluid handling solutions for high purity applications in connection with its acquisition by a distributor of laboratory products.
- Represented a developer of scheduling and optimization software for an adaptive ecosystem for high-performance and cloud computing systems in connection with a variety of general corporate matters and financings, and its sale to an enterprise software company.
- Represented Audley Travel US, Inc., a subsidiary of a leading private equity backed UK travel service, in its negotiation of a major credit facility with Barclays Bank.
- Represented a provider of nanocrystalline calcium-phosphate-based biomaterials that promote the repair and regeneration of damaged bone in its $60 million acquisition by a leading medical devices company.
- Advised an electrical company in its acquisition by a private equity backed leader in the utilities industry.
- Represented a provider of water hauling, disposal, and acid services for oil and gas exploration and production companies in its $50 million sale to a publicly-traded closed-end investment company.
Josh has served as a judge of the Venture Capital Investment Competition, a business plan competition in which students are the investors and entrepreneurs pitch to them. He has presented on financing, corporate law, and equity at TiE ScaleUp and TechSandbox, programs that help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. He is also a member of the Boston Bar Association.
Josh is a committee member for the National MS Society’s annual Climb to the Top event, in which participants ascend more than 1,000 stairs to raise funds for MS research.
Prior to joining Nutter, Josh was a senior attorney at a prominent Massachusetts law firm.
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Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
Duke University, B.A.
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- Massachusetts
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Josh is a committee member for the National MS Society’s annual Climb to the Top event, in which participants ascend more than 1,000 stairs to raise funds for MS research.