Robert Griffitts

About Robert Griffitts

Senior corporate and transactional attorney with 20+ years advising founders, growth-stage companies, private investors, and family offices on complex corporate, financing, M&A, and cross-border transactions. Managing Partner of Griffitts LLP, a boutique transactional practice serving venture-backed companies and private capital clients.I serve as outside general counsel and transaction lead for growth companies, investment vehicles, and emerging-technology ventures, providing strategic legal and commercial structuring from formation through exit. Former Skadden and Wilson Sonsini attorney. My work spans venture and growth financings, buy-side and sell-side M&A, cross-border holding and investment structures, private capital transactions, and strategic commercial contracting. I also advise family offices and private investors on direct investments, joint ventures, and special-purpose transaction vehicles.Clients engage me both through Griffitts LLP and directly as an individual attorney for discrete transactional and advisory mandates.

Experience

1. Founder & Managing Partner

   Griffitts Llp

   Jan 2003 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Founded and lead a boutique corporate and transactional practice advising private companies, founders, investors, and family offices on corporate structuring, venture and growth financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, and strategic growth initiatives. Serve as outside general counsel and transaction lead for venture-backed companies, privately held operating businesses, investment vehicles, and emerging-technology ventures.Representative work includes- Venture and growth-equity financings and strategic investments- Buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, including LOIs and post-closing integration- Cross-border holding and investment structures (U.S, EU, offshore)- Outside general counsel to growth companies: governance, commercial contracting, employment, IP structuring- Private investors and family offices: direct investments, SPVs, joint ventures- Assembly and management of multi-jurisdictional specialist counsel networks

Education

• The Catholic University of America

  JD

  1994 — 1997

• American University

  Master of Business Administration, International Finance

  1993 — 1994

• American University

  Bachelor of Science, International Business

  1989 — 1993