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Tudor Velea

Tudor Velea

Lexters, Romania

Work Department

Venture capital, Private equity, Real estate, Banking, Blockchain & Digital Assets.

Position

As one of the firm's partners, Tudor’s practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds, including buyouts, energy and infrastructure, credit opportunities, venture capital, and funds of funds. He regularly advises companies and fund sponsors and investors in connection with complex mergers/acquisitions and secondary transactions, including fund restructurings and recapitalizations. Tudor’s experience includes acting for clients such as CD&R or HarbourVest Partners.

Career

Prior to co-founding the firm, Tudor began his career in the Investment Management Group at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York, and was a senior associate at White & Case in Miami.

Languages

Romanian, English and French.

Memberships

Tudor is admitted to the New York (2002) and Bucharest (2008) bar.

Education

Tudor received his DEA cum laude from Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne  in 1999 and his J. D. from Columbia University School of Law in New York in 2002, where he was the Managing Editor for the Columbia Journal of European Law.

Personal

Tudor is passionate about the world of venture capital and the opportunity it provides to help entrepreneurs and startups bring their innovative ideas to life.

Leisure

Art, technology and tennis. Unrelated yet co-dependent.