Lawrence H. Gennari

Bio

Larry Gennari, a corporate and transactional lawyer for three decades, values his role in facilitating key relationships and strategic opportunities for his clients. Larry’s clients, whether they are public companies, venture-backed or angel-financed private companies, entrepreneurs, investors or board members, look to him as one of their most trusted business advisors. In addition, Larry’s long time teaching at Boston College Law School, his hosting of the annual Authors & Innovators Business Ideas Forum, and his board leadership of one of New England’s largest non-profit organizations, reflect his commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and building community. With a well-established reputation for strategic advice on both mergers and acquisitions, as well as financing strategies for growth companies, Larry’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law for rapidly growing private and public companies and their supporting executives, directors, investors and advisors. His work includes countless mergers and acquisitions, private offerings, venture capital financings, joint ventures, and public offerings as well as SEC compliance for public companies and their directors and officers. Larry is an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School where he has taught courses on Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance and Advising Entrepreneurs, for more than twenty-five years. Larry developed one of the Law School’s newest courses, Project Entrepreneur, a student-led business fundamentals bootcamp for entrepreneurs with criminal records, many of whom were previously incarcerated. He frequently comments and contributes on corporate finance, venture capital and entrepreneurial topics in publications and as a guest speaker at industry events and seminars. Larry started his career at Ropes & Gray and prior to forming Gennari Aronson, LLP, Larry was a Partner at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston. Larry carries a Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ rating and has been named a New England Super Lawyer for both mergers & acquisitions and securities and corporate finance since the inception of the publication. In a recent New England Super Lawyers edition, Larry was ranked in the New England Top 100 Lawyers category. Larry earned a J.D. from the College of William and Mary, where he ranked third in his class and served as editor-in-chief of the William & Mary Law Review, as well as a B.S. (Accounting), summa cum laude, from North Adams State College, where he was the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s outstanding student.

Education

William & Mary Law School, J.D.,
Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief, William & Mary Law Review
North Adams State College, B.S., Accounting, summa cum laude

PEOPLE

Co-Founder & Partner

lgennari@galawpartners.com

781-719-9804

Thought Leadership

“Larry Gennari names his notable reads for 2024” Executive Commentary, Boston Business Journal (December 12, 2024)

Innovation, business book festival returns for eighth year (October 22, 2024)

“Look at me! Telling your story in a noisy world” Executive Commentary, Boston Business Journal (September 20, 2024)

“Authors & Innovators: What if you could do … anything?” Executive Commentary, Boston Business Journal (July 5, 2024)

“No right to an honest living: Juneteenth in Boston then and now,” Executive Commentary, Boston Business Journal (June 14, 2024)

Professional & Community Involvement

Larry serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of American Student Assistance (Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation). He also serves on the national Board of Directors of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Previously, Larry served on the Vincent Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Advisory Board of the University of Massachusetts (Boston) College of Management, and the Advisory Council for the Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

Larry is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance and corporate compliance matters.

Mergers & Acquisitions Sale of leading life science/biotech project management company to private equity-backed strategic acquiror Sale of leading New England home improvement company to private equity-backed strategic acquiror Sale of regional environmental residential services company to private equity-backed strategic acquiror Acquisitions of renewable energy service and support businesses in US for public company acquiror Sale of nationally known, privately held specialty manufacturing company to billion dollar, private equity acquiror Sale of privately held medical device company to billion dollar, publicly held, strategic acquiror Sale of leading provider of research and market analysis for global enterprise technology companies to public tech company. Sale of innovative contaminant remediation business, a subsidiary of a global services and consulting company, to a private equity backed environmental services firm. Sale of registered investment advisor with more than $1B under management to Focus Financial Partners $72 million acquisition of United States based software business by Canadian software company. Acquisitions totaling more than $100 million in transaction value for publicly held retail chain, including public company merger and purchase of 50 store Canadian retail chain $62 million sale of west coast operations of private equity backed rural telecommunications company to public company $101 million sale of business segment of telecommunications company to publicly held buyer Sale of environmental services company to Clean Harbors, Inc. Sale of blockchain trademark company to GoDaddy Sale of privately held online rental company to TripAdvisor Sale of privately held security software company to The Boeing Corporation Sale of digital media and online publishing company to RR Donnelly & Sons Sale of high school sports media company to ESPN Merger of well-established public accounting firm with larger international accounting firm Acquisition of learning management software company for private equity backed SaaS company Acquisition of talent management solutions company for private equity backed SaaS company Financings $7 million plus angel-strategic partner financing rounds for collectibles fan engagement company $2 million plus angel-financing rounds for financial services SaaS platform company $3.5 million angel-financing round for Vermont-based artisanal cheese manufacturer $5 million in angel-financing rounds for life-safety sensor technology company $35 million in initial and follow-on venture capital rounds for enterprise software company $11 million PIPE financing and various SEC compliance matters for publicly held semiconductor equipment manufacturer $40 million in total public offerings and warrant redemption for national multi-unit retail company $50 million plus syndicated credit agreement for private-equity backed telecommunications company

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