Afshin Hakim business attorney

Afshin represents start-up, emerging growth, and middle market companies as their outside general counsel, serving as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, investors, and management teams. Afshin’s prior experience as a litigator and in-house general counsel of privately held company brings a deeper level of business experience that his clients find invaluable. He works with companies in a number of industries, including technology, digital and social media, internet marketing, entertainment, health care, branded consumer products, financial services, real estate and more. Afshin has extensive experience serving as counsel to both investors (including venture capital funds, angel investors, growth and mezzanine capital providers, private equity groups and other capital sources) and companies in equity and debt financing transactions. These deals range from small seed capital investments (in the form of common or preferred equity financings and convertible debt) to traditional venture capital preferred stock transactions to both minority and control investments made by private equity funds. He also represents borrowers and lenders in secured debt financing transactions.