Jonathan Lazarow

Jonathan is a member of ReavesColey’s Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.  He counsels both public and private companies on matters ranging from day-to-day corporate matters to complex mergers and acquisitions, securities, private placements, and venture capital work. Jonathan’s practice includes advising sponsors, investors, and companies on merger and acquisition transactions, corporate governance, antitrust matters, preferred equity investments, capital restructurings, and debt and equity work-outs. Jonathan assists entrepreneurs with business formation, fundraising, compensation issues, securities, commercialization, mergers and acquisitions, and other matters pertinent to emerging businesses. 

Prior to practicing law, Jonathan spent more than a decade investing in, operating, and advising a wide range of both domestic and international businesses. As a result of his business experience, Jonathan regularly provides business advisory and consulting services that provide tangible benefits and value to his clients. Prior to joining ReavesColey, he worked for a leading Virginia business law firm in the area of mergers & acquisitions.  Jonathan brings the perspective of a business owner to his transactional practice – he started his professional career working in his family-held business – a national jewelry retailer.

Representative Matters: 
  • Represented a multi-physician orthopedics practice in its sale to a financial sponsor supported orthopedics group.
  • Advised regional Ob-Gyn multigroup practice on its sale to national Ob-Gyn practice and its subsequent recapitalization. 
  • Advised privately held food supplement company on the sale of substantially all of its assets to a publicly traded nutrition company.
  • Advised a financial sponsor and its portfolio company in tuck-in transactions to expand its regional footprint. 
  • Advised a financial sponsor in its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a regional ambulance operator.
  • Advised a financial sponsor and management investors of a waste management and recycling company in restructuring and sale to a public corporation.
  • Advised a radiology practice with its own COPN in operating imaging centers in a regional hospital system. This complex transaction included an F-Reorganization. 
  • Advised a software company, including completing an F-Reorganization in the sale to a financial sponsor.
  • Represents a surgical oncology practice in a variety of corporate matters including designing a physician extender program, physician employment agreements, and evaluating and structuring its relationship with physician management company.
  • Designed shareholder capital structure incorporating various rounds of financing, drafted required documentation, and amended operating agreement to permit sale of a casual dining chain to strategic acquirer. 
Contact Jonathan

jonathan.lazarow@reavescoley.com
757.410.8066

Education
  • A.B. Government, Dartmouth College 
  • M.Sc. Management Studies, University of Oxford 
  • J.D., University of Richmond School of Law 

Associations
  • American Bar Association 
  • Virginia Bar Association