Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Corporate/Securities

Partner

Carmelo has practiced corporate and securities law throughout his 25-year legal career. Carmelo is known as a leader in the Texas venture capital and private equity community and was formerly the chairman of the San Francisco-based Brobeck Business & Technology Group. Carmelo's primary focus is on life science, software, telecommunications, semiconductor and energy sector companies. His practice includes:

advising companies and boards of directors on corporate governance issues representing issuers and investment banking firms in public offerings and private financings (including PIPE, 144A and venture capital financings) and representing acquirors and targets in a broad variety of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and other business combination transactions.

In addition to Carmelo's company practice, he has an active practice representing GPs and LPs of hedge, private equity, venture capital and real estate funds. These funds range from several tens of millions of dollars to multibillion-dollar funds.

International Accelerator, Board Member State Bar of New York State Bar of Texas American Bar Association, Corporate Law Section

JD, 1983, Harvard Law School BA, 1980, Harvard University