Jay S. Rand
Jay S. Rand is a partner and Co-Chair of the Corporate & Finance Group, and a member of the Technology Group.
He is widely recognized as a leading advisor to emerging tech and tech-enabled companies and their investors.
Jay Rand has extensive experience advising on entity formation, corporate governance, venture capital and other types of financing. He also advises clients on M&A transactions, strategic partnerships and licensing arrangements. Jay’s practice focuses in particular on clients in high-growth industries, such as digital media, FinTech, software, health and life sciences, and consumer goods and technologies. He also represents venture capital funds, private equity funds, angel investors and accelerators in investment and other transactional matters.
Some of Mr. Rand’s most recent transactional representations include:
- a marketplace lending platform in a strategic equity financing;
- a leading provider of “know your customer” data compliance services in the sale of the company;
- a new media platform for architects in a Series A institutional venture round; and
- an online specialty foods store in a Series A investment round
Mr. Rand is a member of the adjunct faculty at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a course in High-Growth Entrepreneurship. He is also a frequent speaker and author of articles on issues critical to emerging companies, entrepreneurs and investors.
He is admitted to practice in New York.