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Raymond P. Thek is Vice Chairman of Lowenstein Sandler's Tech Group. Ray advises tech and life sciences companies in all aspects of corporate finance, including venture financing, acquisitions, divestitures and strategic alliances. He has extensive experience in venture capital investment, mergers and acquisitions and private equity financings including, tech transfer and strategic partnering. Ray is a member of the firm's Corporate Department and Vice Chairman of the Tech Group.
Ray provides tactical and strategic advice to many sectors of the business world, including start up companies, acquirers seeking value in acquisition transactions, sellers seeking the intersection between speed and value preservation, and lenders and financiers seeking to maximize, preserve or recover assets. Representative clients include venture funds such as Trident, Abingworth, OpenView, Valhalla and .406 Ventures and companies such as Dun & Bradstreet, American Express, Saladax Biomedical, Chromocell, and AdSafe.
Ray was formerly a Senior Partner in the Princeton office of Hale and Dorr. Previously, Ray practiced at Cleary Gottlieb in New York City, concentrating on M&A and private equity.
Related Experience
First Growth Venture Network
Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member
First Growth Venture Network's mission is to help make great, early stage companies even better. FGVN provides a formal mentoring program and peer group for a jury-selected group (or "vintage") of high potential, seed and early stage start-up tech entrepreneurs. FGVN takes these entrepreneurs and accelerates their "FirstGrowth" by (1) connecting them with successful entrepreneurs and investors, all of whom have spent years in and around tech start-ups; (2) providing regular opportunities for substantive information and networking with the broader First Growth community; and (3) providing a peer group of other high potential tech leadership teams in the First Growth program. The application and, for those admitted, the program are both free (FGVN doesn't ask for money or equity).
GrapeArborVC
Co-Founder and COO
GrapeArborVC is an angel investor group comprised of 9 friends who spend their professional lives working with and/or in tech start-ups. They pool their personal finances and expertise to make angel investments. Since its founding in 2006, GrapeArborVC has financially backed more than two dozen companies.
AngelVineVC
Executive Committee Member
AngelVineVC is a NYC-based gathering of angels, VCs, serial entrepreneurs and senior execs in the tech industry striving to strengthen the community of those interested in funding and supporting early-stage ventures, primarily but not exclusively in digital media, financial services and cloud/virtualization. AngelVineVC holds gatherings in NYC several times a year to hear cool speakers, connect with a screened set of tech start-ups hungry for investment and greatness, and drink some killer wines. We don't ever charge the start-ups to apply or attend, but it is invite only.
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NO PAIN - NO GAIN: Five Arguments Not to Have With Your Mezzanine & Late Round VC
LifeSciTech, Q4 2005
Raymond Thek,
Eric H. Sillman
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Lowenstein Sandler: Heads Into New Frontier, Picks Up the Stem Cell Gauntlet
New Jersey Business, June 2005
Raymond Thek,
Gary Friedman, MD
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New Jersey Takes Leadership Position in Stem Cell Research and Commercialization
New Jersey TechNews, June 2004
Raymond Thek,
Gary Friedman, MD
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In a San Francisco Chronicle article, First Growth Venture Network, founded by Ed Zimmerman, Kathi Rawnsley and Raymond P. Thek, is highlighted for giving the New York venture capital community access to talent, fellow entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors.,
San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, July 7, 2010
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Raymond P. Thek discusses New Jersey's leadership position in stem cell research and funding and addresses the legal community's expanding role in the field.,
The Star Ledger, March 19, 2006
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Raymond P. Thek discusses recent trends in biomedicine and the industry's effect on diagnostic imaging instrument manufacturers.,
Chemical & Engineering News, July 25, 2005
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Yale Law School
(J.D., 1986),
Director, Yale Law and Technology Association and the Yale Federalist Society
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Boston University
(B.A., 1983),
magna cum laude
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New York
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New Jersey
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- AngelVineVC -- www.angelvinevc.com
- Commercialization Center for Innovative Technologies
- New Jersey Business Incubation Network
- NJIT-Enterprise Development Center
- Guest Lecturer, Goergen Entrepreneurial Management Program, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- Guest Lecturer, Columbia Business School
- National Venture Capital Association
- Patent Group Advisory Board Member
- NJTC
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Edison Innovation Program
- NJ All Stars
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