Selling a company is hard. For starters, how do you know if you’re getting a good price, especially with a company that has little to no revenue? Is $10 million a good number? $50 million? $100 million? Nobody wants to be the sucker who sold a company for a fraction of what it was really … Continue reading “Helping Entrepreneurs Make Sense of M&A Deal Terms”
Author: Paul Koenig
Attorney and entrepreneur Paul Koenig is co-founder and managing director of Shareholder Representative Services in San Francisco. Paul manages operations and heads the Professional Team at SRS, which has served as the shareholder representative on more than 130 deals representing an aggregate value of more than $16 billion.
Before forming SRS in 2007, Paul practiced law at some of the nation’s most prestigious law firms. He specialized in representing both public and venture-backed companies in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), debt and equity financings, company formations, and securities issuance and compliance. Paul also represented many venture capital investors in connection with private equity financings and other transactions. Based on this experience, he has a strong understanding of both investment fund operations and the sale of venture-backed portfolio companies.
Paul was one of the founding partners of Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner, a Denver-based corporate and business law firm with a very strong practice in mergers and acquisitions, securities and venture capital finance. Prior to that, he was an attorney in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins, and in the Colorado office of Cooley Godward Kronish. Paul graduated from Northwestern University School of Law and received his B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa.
Paul can be reached at [email protected].