Profile
David Stuzin advises large and small companies, private-equity firms and venture capital firms on legal needs arising at all intervals of the business life cycle, from inception to capital raising to exit. He focuses his practice on engaging with clients to handle a wide array of corporate matters including mergers and acquisitions, financings, capital raises, strategic investments, commercial contracts and general corporate governance.
Prior to joining the firm in 2021, David spent over six years working in businesses including as an assistant in financial technologies at Conde Nast, an analyst of advertising data at Mashable and a director of customer experience marketing at Firstleaf, a wine-club start up based in New York. David has an insider’s understanding of the challenges companies face at every stage of their existence and applies this practical, business-oriented knowledge to helping his clients pursue their legal goals.
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented Kaseya in connection with Kaseya’s acquisition from Miami-Dade County of the naming rights to the Kaseya Center, Home of the Miami Heat, with the acquisition valued at $117 million.
- Represented an Atlanta-based accelerator and venture capital fund, focused on portfolio companies in the spirits industry, in connection with over a dozen seed and Series A venture capital financings.
- Represented Verdantas LLC, an environmental consulting firm and portfolio company of Miami-based private equity firm RTC Partners, in its acquisitions of multiple environmental consulting firms.
- Represented a Fort Lauderdale, FL-based venture capital fund in its Series A financing round in a media technology company.
- Represented Orangewood Partners LLC, a New-York based private equity firm, in its strategic investment in DLA, LLC, a leading internal audit and accounting advisory firm.
- Represented a South Florida technology conference on various commercial agreements and in providing ongoing corporate counsel.
- Represented a Miami-based medical technology company in its Series A financing round.
- Represented CloudTree Ventures, a venture capital fund focusing on technologies driving interactive entertainment and the metaverse, in connection with a Series A financing round in Arcturus Studios Holdings, Inc., the global leader in volumetric video editing and streaming tools.
- Represented a South Florida-based apparel company specializing in the manufacturing and design of emblems on several commercial contracts.
- Represented GAI Consultants, an Pennsylvania engineering, planning and environmental consulting firm, in its sale to Comvest Partners.
- Represented a Spanish technology company in roll-up acquisitions in the US staffing solutions market.
- Represented Omega & Associates, Inc., an industry-leading engineering firm providing consulting services throughout the greater Chicago area, in its sale to TranSystems Corp., a national transportation consulting firm that provides engineering, architectural, planning, and construction solutions
- Represented ACI Airport Sudamérica, S.A. in the restructuring and issuance of its notes, issued in reliance on Rule 144A/Regulation S.
- Firstleaf, 2016-2018
- Director of Customer Experience Marketing, 2017-2018
- Email Marketing Manager, 2016-2017
- Digital Assistant, Mashable, 2014-2015
- Intern, Hon. Yvonne Colodny, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, 2019
Recognition & Leadership
- HOPE Exemplary Service Award Recipient, University of Miami HOPE Public Interest Resource Center, 2021
- Clinic Fellow, University of Miami School of Law, International Human Rights Clinic, 2019-2021
- Crisis Counselor, Crisis Text Line, 2015-2016
Credentials
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J.D., summa cum laude, University of Miami School of Law
- Digital Editor, University of Miami Law Review
- Order of the Coif
- M.S., Publishing, New York University
- B.B.A., University of Florida
- B.A., University of Florida
- Florida