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What Should You Look for in an M&A Lawyer? | Joe Prencipe, Prencipe International · The PE Podcast

• 0:00
  Joshua Wilson: All right, Joe, why don't you tell us a little bit about your firm and some of the deals you guys do?
• 0:04
  Joe Prencipe: Yeah, absolutely.
• 0:04
  Joe Prencipe: So my name's Joe Prencipe.
• 0:06
  Joe Prencipe: I run Prencipe International.
• 0:07
  Joe Prencipe: We're a boutique law firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions in the lower middle market.
• 0:13
  Joe Prencipe: So who we love to work with are private equity groups, family offices, strategic acquirers who are acquiring businesses 10, 20, 30, up to 50 million in a bit, and then of course the range around there.
• 0:26
  Joe Prencipe: Our firm is only staffed, and I myself as well, only worked at top-tier international law firms.
• 0:32
  Joe Prencipe: And that's really important because we provide so much more added value over a typical mid-tier law firm that people, you know, you usually just don't know what's in the black box in terms of what's my lawyer actually doing for me?
• 0:47
  Joe Prencipe: What would a top 10 law firm lawyer do for me differently?
• 0:52
  Joe Prencipe: You just don't know.
• 0:53
  Joe Prencipe: It's a peril so many people in the space face.
• 0:57
  Joe Prencipe: And so for example, I worked at, you know, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
• 1:01
  Joe Prencipe: They're known as the leader of the Magic Circle of international law firms.
• 1:06
  Joe Prencipe: I clerked at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• 1:09
  Joe Prencipe: I also worked at two other top international law firms, and I sold my own businesses as well.
• 1:15
  Joe Prencipe: So I have this unique operator insider perspective that you're, you know, that your average attorney usually doesn't have, who's just gone to law school and pushed paper for twenty years.