Alexander Swider

Alex advises private equity funds, large public corporations and privately held companies of all sizes and at every stage of development on a wide variety of corporate law matters. He advises clients in negotiating complex merger and acquisition deals, venture capital and private equity investments, and regarding tax structuring and analysis.

Alex advises early stage emerging companies on formation, growth financing and successful exits by sale, merger or public offering. Additionally, he counsels venture capital, angel investors, as well as family offices, on formation, planning and executing investment strategies, structures, and exit strategy and execution. Alex enjoys working with founders of start-up companies on the ground floor to help put them in the best position to raise capital from friends and family, seed-stage and venture capital.

In addition to M&A and deal formation, Alex also counsels clients in a variety of general corporate day-to-day matters, including entity formation, corporate governance, customer/supplier contract drafting, and equity compensation arrangements.

He also advises on the compliance and antitrust issues that often arise in M&A and other transactions for growing companies.

Alex gained legal experience as a summer associate in the firm's Indianapolis office and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robyn L. Moberly of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Prior to attending law school, Alex was a senior associate with accounting firm Katz, Sapper & Miller LLP, where he worked as a financial auditor in Indianapolis.