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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (March 16, 2022) — National law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP announced today the arrival of a five-person emerging companies practice in New York led by partners Joseph Daniels and Arina Shulga. The team most recently worked together at McCarter & English.

Daniels joins as co-chair of the firm’s Emerging Companies practice. He represents startup and publicly held technology, life sciences, and consumer companies as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, and investment banks located in the U.S. and around the world. He has executed hundreds of key financings, mergers and acquisitions, and initial public offering transactions for companies and investors at every stage of the business life cycle.

Daniels also serves as outside general counsel for numerous companies, assisting them with everything from day-to-day business transactions to multinational strategic alliance transactions, including technology and distribution partnerships and joint ventures. He focuses on representing clients involved in high-growth sectors and has experience with a vast number of industries, including adtech, aerospace, AI, biotech, blockchain, cleantech, consumer, cryptocurrency, digital media, e-commerce, edge computing, Internet of Things, FinTech/financial services, life sciences, medical device, mobile, semiconductor, software, and telecommunications.

Shulga represents emerging companies from formation through rounds of financing, growth and exit, and advises angel investors and venture capital funds in making and exiting investments. Among Shulga’s clients are many emerging investment fund managers launching both hedge, private equity and venture funds.  Shulga forms and structures fund management entities with a particular focus on maximizing tax benefits, profit sharing, and federal and state regulatory compliance. She regularly structures and negotiates complex software license agreements, master services agreements, support level agreements, software escrow agreements, purchase orders, and terms of use for technology company clients.

Along with Daniels and Shulga, three associates have joined the firm: Geoffrey Garrett, Andrew Crowe, and Matthew O’Brien. Nick Nieto also joined the firm as a paralegal.

Daniels said, “Nelson Mullins offers our team a deep bench of expertise in numerous areas and the geographic reach required to provide world-class representation of emerging companies and investment funds in day-to-day matters as well as large sophisticated transactions, such as financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings.”

Joe and Arina bring years of experience in advising both startups and publicly held companies in a variety of industries, providing counsel at all stages of the business life cycle,” noted Nelson Mullins Emerging Companies practice co-chair Paul Rothstein. “Their experience will be an asset to our growing emerging company and venture capital practice.”

“We are pleased to continue our growth in the New York office with the addition of Joe and Arina’s team,” added New York Office Managing Partner Steve Hantz. “We are committed to expanding our services from this financial center, and Joe and Arina are a great addition to our client offerings here.”

Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 930 attorneys and government relations professionals across 31 offices and 15 states and Washington, D.C. For more information on the firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com.