Overview
Bill Schwab is chair of Paul Hastings' Boston office and a partner in the firm's Private Equity practice.
Bill focuses his practice on advising leading private equity and private credit funds and their portfolio companies in connection with structured preferred and growth equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, co-investments, and secondary transactions. Bill regularly represents searchers, search fund investors, and search fund companies, advising on fundraising, acquisition, company operations, and exit strategies. Bill also provides outside general counsel to early-stage and mature private companies.
Bill’s representative clients include Goldman Sachs, Great Hill Partners, Sixth Street Partners, Everberg Capital Partners, Ares Management, Luxor Capital Group, Liberty Mutual Investments, Monroe Capital, Arches Medical Partners, Thayer Street Partners and M/C Partners, among others. Bill is also general outside counsel to a number of private companies, including CustomInk, Connectivity Wireless, Bombas, Locus Robotics, QMC Telecom International and Second Nature.
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2003
- Carthage College, B.A., 1996 (summa cum laude)
Representations
- Represented a group of private capital funds in connection with the structured preferred financing of ModMed.
- Goldman Sachs in numerous investment and sales transactions and recapitalizations.
- Varicent and Great Hill Partners on a strategic investment in Varicent by Warburg Pincus, Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity.
- Great Hill Partners’ investments in Bombas, CustomInk, Second Nature, Notonthehighstreet.com and subsequent strategic bolt-on acquisitions.
- Sixth Street Partners’ $130 million preferred equity investment in atVenu, $40 million preferred equity investment in Medsphere Systems, Inc. and significant minority investment in Keyfactor, Inc.
- Gurnet Point Capital in multiple early and later-stage investment transactions and recapitalizations.
- Housatonic Partners’ growth investment in Key Media, a multinational B2B media business.
- Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity’s joint acquisition of Varicent Software from IBM.
- Connectivity Wireless’ acquisition of a wireless infrastructure developer.
- Connectivity Wireless’ acquisition of wireless infrastructure manager Simplifi Wireless.
- Luxor Capital’s growth equity and debt investments in multiple U.S., LatAm and European internet and social media businesses.
- Thayer Street Partners in multiple secondary investments in private media and technology companies.
- U.S.-based venture fund in connection with its investment in Flixbus.
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.
Engagement & Publications
- “ETA Over Time Panel,” MIT’s 8th Annual ETA Conference, Cambridge, MA, Speaker (Feb. 16, 2024).
- “Growth Equity Panel,” Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference, New York, Speaker (March 31, 2023).
Involvement
- Member, board of trustees of the Albanian-American Development Foundation, an NGO with a mission to facilitate the development of a sustainable private sector economy and a democratic society in Albania, and to contribute to stability in Southeastern Europe.
- Volunteer in local community for pro bono matters such as coordinating a benefits assistance project for wounded combat veterans and representing children in immigration matters as a part of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND).
- Co-chair, Boston Bar Association’s Committee on Venture Capital and Emerging Companies.