About Us

This blog is edited by Geoffrey Parnass, a corporate transaction attorney based in New York City.  Geoffrey provides M&A, transaction and general counsel services to entrepreneurs, management teams, private equity sponsors,  and public and private companies.  Previously, Geoffrey worked as Vice President and General Counsel of Hunter Douglas Inc., a manufacturer of home furnishing products.  Before that, he was associated with the corporate law departments of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York.

Geoffrey is a partner at Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole LLC.  His office is at 150 East 42nd Street, New York, New York 10017, and he can be reached at (646) 895-7148 (office) and (646) 742-7636 (cell).

His transaction practice includes: 

  •          Mergers and acquisitions
  •          Private equity and leveraged buyout transactions
  •          Venture capital investments
  •          Joint ventures and technology licensing arrangements
  •          Bank and other forms of financing transactions
  •          Recapitalization and work-out transactions

 He also provides general counsel service to portfolio companies in contracts, regulatory, intellectual property, litigation management and other fields affecting the legal profile of an enterprise, including securities law, commercial contracts, distribution arrangements, antitrust and trade regulation, intellectual property licensing and management, joint ventures, employment agreements and compensation structures and technology transfers. Geoffrey has structured and documented a wide variety of marketing and new venture undertakings for manufacturing and service companies.   Geoffrey also provides counsel in connection with private placements and the issuance of securities under Regulation D.   

Geoffrey holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the Notes Editor of the Law Review, and an LL.M. in corporate law from Yale Law School. He received a B.A. from Vassar College in Philosophy where he graduated with honors.  He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.