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Sarah Reed is a Member of the Firm working in the Tech Group. She focuses her practice on representing venture and private equity funds as well as the entrepreneurs and portfolio companies in which those funds invest. Ms. Reed is recognized as a national authority on legal aspects of venture capital financings. Ms. Reed is the founding Chairperson of an industry-wide, NVCA-endorsed initiative to create model venture financing legal documents, which is online at www.nvca.org/model_documents/model_docs.html. The NVCA Model Legal Documents have become a standard in the venture capital industry and by providing these documents with footnotes on an open source basis, the NVCA has educated many lawyers, entrepreneurs and investors about the way in which venture deals are negotiated and documented. As a result of these efforts, the NVCA awarded Sarah its Outstanding Service Award in 2007. She has also appeared as an industry representative on the PBS television program "Debates, Debates," and was profiled in The Industry Standard. She has guest lectured at numerous universities including Harvard, MIT Sloane School of Management, Columbia Business School and others and her articles about various aspects of representing venture firms and start-up companies have appeared in a number of publications, including the Venture Capital Review, Business Law Today and the Boston Business Journal.
Prior to joining Lowenstein, Ms. Reed served for eight years as the General Counsel of Charles River Ventures, a leading venture capital firm with offices in Boston and Silicon Valley. Before that, Sarah was General Counsel at Palomar Medical Technologies, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed laser medical device manufacturer. Sarah began her legal career with the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP where she covered a variety of areas including venture capital financings, private placements, IPOs and SEC reporting, as well as commercial litigation.
Sarah earned her BA from Harvard College in East Asian Studies and her JD from Harvard Law School, both cum laude. She also attended Fudan University in Shanghai and the Stanford Center for Advanced Chinese Language Study in Taiwan. She is a Trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and a Board member of the French Library/Alliance Française in Boston. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and French.
Sarah is a certified fitness instructor, marathoner and a mother of three, and finds the latter more physically challenging than the former. She practices out of Lowenstein Sandler's Boston office.
Speaking/Teaching Highlights:
- Choosing the Right Counsel, National Association of Corporate Directors (2006)
- Model Financing Documents, NVCA Annual Meeting (2003 - 2006)
- Venture Capital Financing, Practising Law Institute (2004)
- Women in Private Equity, Women In Technology International (2004)
- Understanding Deal Terms, Venture Capital Institute (2002 - 2003)
- Hot Buttons in VC Financing Today, MIT Sloan School (2003)
- Entrepreneurial Finance, Columbia University (2003)
- Hot Buttons in VC Financing Today, MIT Sloan School of Management (2003)
- Pre-IPO Financing, Villanova Law School (2002)
- Debates Debates: Have Stock Options Been Abused?, PBS (2002)
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In a tongue-in-cheek guest blog about the current financial crisis, Sarah Reed reviews common venture capital and legal terminology associated with the economic meltdown.,
Feld.com, October 22, 2008
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Gina Perez Flynn discusses the unique work environment of Lowenstein Sandler's Boston office, led by Sarah Reed, and its focus on promoting a healthier workplace.,
Lawyers Weekly, July 31, 2008
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