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Anthony O. Pergola is the Vice Chair and Co-Founder of Lowenstein Sandler's Tech Group.
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business called Mr. Pergola a "deal-machine" and touted his "attention to detail, management and negotiation skills and ability to solve technical problems," which make deals "his strong suit" (2007) and singled him out as being "practical, efficient and meticulous" (2008). Mr. Pergola is also listed among The Best Lawyers in America. NJBIZ magazine named Mr. Pergola one of New Jersey’s top forty business leaders under the age of 40 (2005).
Mr. Pergola's clients create, finance and bring to market new technologies in the IT/software, communications, financial services, and life sciences/biotech industries, among others. He assists emerging, growth, later-stage technology businesses, and the venture funds that finance them, in venture capital investments. As those companies mature, he helps them to effect critical liquidity events -- whether through the sale of the company or IPO. Mr. Pergola also represents financial and strategic buyers in purchasing venture-backed technology businesses; he has closed dozens of M&A transactions. Mr. Pergola also represents publicly-held companies in the life sciences and technology sectors. Mr. Pergola has written and lectured extensively about business and legal topics impacting public and venture-backed technology and life sciences businesses, ranging from venture issues to corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Mr. Pergola is an active angel investor and is a founding member of Grape Arbor, LLC, a group of angel investors that has consummated more than a dozen angel investments into technology or financial services companies in the last 2 years. Mr. Pergola is also a member of the working group that authored and revised the National Venture Capital Association's Model Legal Documents.
Mr. Pergola is a founding board member and currently Co -Chair of AngelVineVC, a network of angel investors and 30 venture funds dedicated to assisting early-stage ventures in the NY and Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Pergola sang a cappella with Harvard Law 's "Scales of Justice" and aced the advanced placement test in Pascal computer programming in High School. He's working on being a bit cooler these days, but not doing a great job of it!
Selected Articles About or Quoting Anthony O. Pergola
- "Socking it to SOX,"Alternative Universe, June 11, 2007
- "Forty Under 40," NJBIZ, 2005
- "Painless Accounting: The Channel's Role in Taking the Fear and Cost Out of Sarbanes-Oxley," Kevin O’Rourke, Vertical Systems Reseller, June 2005
- "Nasdaq Threatens Delisting For 'Disclaimed Opinion'," Paul J. Martinek, Compliance Week, May 17, 2005
- "Another Sarbox Effect: PE Focus on Little Guys; Funds Hope to Capitalize on High Regulatory Costs Borne by Small Companies," Josh Friedlander, Investment Dealers Digest, May 2, 2005
Speaking Engagements
- "Early Stage Technology Venture Capital and Entrepreneurs," Panelist, The Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York, June 14, 2006
- "Buying and Selling Technology Companies (the Role of Venture Capital)," Moderator, 2006 Corporate Counsel Institute sponsored by the NJICLE, January 25, 2006.
- "Sarbanes-Oxley Issues," presented at the National Association of Credit Management meeting in Kennebunkport, Maine, July 2004
- "Professional Ethics after Enron - Through the Lens of a Jesuit Education," Saint Peter's College 2002 Lecture Series
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Anthony O. Pergola spotlighted as the legal expert in a feature on the role term sheets play in financing high-tech, start-up ventures.,
Finance & Accounting View, Summer 2007
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Anthony Pergola discusses the challenges presented by Sarbanes-Oxley to the venture capital community, in an article focusing on the testimony before a Congressional committee hearing of Mark Heesen, President of the National Venture Capital Association.,
Alternative Universe, June 11, 2007
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Anthony O. Pergola comments on climbing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs and the role technology is playing to keep them at bay,
Vertical Systems Reseller, June 2005
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Harvard Law School
(J.D., 1995),
cum laude
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Saint Peter's College
(B.A., 1992),
summa cum laude
- Salutatorian, Student Body President, Alpha Sigma Nu (National Jesuit Honors Society)
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New Jersey
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1995,
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
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- Member, Board of Regents of Saint Peter's College (appointed 2006)
- Co-Chair/Founding Board Member, AngelVineVC
- Chair, Indemnification Agreement Committee, NVCA Model Legal Documents Project
- Co-Founding Member, Grape Arbor, LLC
- Trustee, Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey (2007)
- Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Law Firm Advisory Committee
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