Julia D. Corelli

Julie focuses her practice on counseling investment funds, sponsors, advisors, and companies throughout their entire business cycle. She has advised more than 80 principal groups on the formation and operation of private investment funds ranging in size from $50 million to $1 billion. These funds include private equity, growth, venture, angel, real estate, energy and natural resources, bond, distressed and hedge funds. Clients value Julie’s approach to structuring fund formation agreements, which addresses the myriad of possible challenges her clients may face.

Julie regularly advises on issues related to investment fund principal compensation, succession planning, allocations and distributions, buy-sell arrangements, and carry and incentive equity arrangements. She also assists with separately managed accounts, private wealth advisor services, and broker-dealer issues. Julie serves as general outside counsel to family offices. In this capacity she provides direction on the legal complexities related to the structuring and implementation of customized investment programs as well as day-to-day operations and transactions.

Corporate and other institutional investors also turn to Julie to handle their private equity investment transactions, venture capital investments, acquisitions, dispositions and financings of business enterprises. She designs and develops joint venture and investment partnerships and assists them in completing investments and joint operating agreements.

Julie is experienced in a variety of industries including biotechnology, nutraceuticals, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, financial services, peer-to-peer lending, health care, energy and natural resources, and real estate.

Julie was a member of the firm’s tax group from 1989 through 1998 and became a partner in 1992. She served on the firm’s Executive Committee for 12 years and served as its vice chair from 2013 to 2017.

Julie speaks regularly before trade and bar associations on a variety of topics, including domestic and foreign private investment fund formation and operational issues, investment structures used by private investment funds, succession planning and partnership, limited liability company and S and C corporation planning and operational issues.

• Designed and developed permanent capital vehicles that invest in early and late stage companies, or opportunistically.
• Advised on terms, structure, and implementation processes for numerous closed-end and open-end funds in various sectors, including technology, credit, real estate, biotech, and alternative assets (MBS, ABS, MSRs, and others).
• Assisted funds and strategic investor groups, as well as operating companies, in completing leveraged buyouts, venture capital investments, management buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, and asset and stock acquisitions.
• Designed and developed oil and gas investment partnerships and assisted in completing investments in domestic oil and gas assets, including exploration and development agreements and joint operating agreements.
• Counseled operating companies in various industries on contracting, financing, licensing, outsourcing, domestic and international structures and operations.
• Served as special board counsel in reorganizations, recapitalizations, strategic partnering, governance and fiduciary matters.
• Advised private equity and venture backed companies regarding board issues, contracting, outsourcing, incentive equity and capitalization matters, buy-sell and other shareholder relations matters, and domestic and international structures and operations.
• Provide outside corporate counseling to the largest global manufacturer and distributor of baker’s yeast. Includes handling venture investment transactions.