Upon graduation from law school, Jonathan Gabriel received the Faculty Outstanding Student Award for the Evening Division and the Daniel J. Fern Award for the highest grade point average in the Evening Division. He was lead articles editor of the Suffolk University Law Review and earned American Jurisprudence awards in antitrust, basic federal income tax, civil procedure, constitutional law, criminal law and professional responsibility.
Practice Focus
Business & Technology: friends and family stock issuances, venture capital and bank financings, strategic partner negotiations and sale of company transactions.
General Corporate & Securities: equity and debt financings, public company reporting, corporate governance and equity incentive plan administration.
Private Equity: mergers, acquisitions and sales of portfolio companies, minority investments, recapitalizations and general portfolio company representation.
Specialty Finance: senior secured financings of private equity fund acquisitions.
Representative Engagements
- Represented agent and lead lender in $38 million senior secured credit facility that funded private equity fund acquisition of entertainment media business.
- Represented private equity fund sponsor in $37 million acquisition of telephone directory publisher.
- Represented private equity fund in $6 million minority investment in geological survey software company.
- Represented shareholders of family-owned connectivity product manufacturer in $54 million sale of company to strategic investor.
- Represented early-stage technology company in issuance of preferred stock to strategic partner.
- Represented Nasdaq-listed company in preparation and filing of annual meeting proxy materials and annual report on Form 10-K.
- Represented party to potential merger in preparation and filing of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act notice with Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
- Suffolk University Law School, JD, 2005, summa cum laude
- College of William & Mary, BA, 1996