Paul T. Wrycha is a partner in the Private Equity & Venture Capital and Transactional & Securities Practices, as well as the Emerging Technologies and Life Sciences Industry Teams. He has practiced in the areas of mergers, acquisitions and leveraged recapitalizations; public and private offerings of equity securities; federal securities law compliance; and assisted in the organization, development and financing of start-up, emerging growth and development stage companies. Mr. Wrycha has structured and negotiated numerous complex acquisitions and divestitures for both public and private clients and international and domestic clients. He has represented underwriters and issuers in public equity offerings and numerous start-up companies and emerging growth companies in venture capital financing transactions. Mr. Wrycha also acts in the capacity of outside general counsel for several clients.
Mr. Wrycha has been involved in transactions involving food companies (including agribusiness and manufactured food products), managed care, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, logistics, manufacturing plastics, metals, telecommunications, publishing, consumer products and a variety of service industries. These transactions range in size from quite modest to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Mr. Wrycha joined Foley in 2000 from the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he represented several national private equity funds. Prior to Skadden Arps, he worked at Netscape Communications Corporation, where his practice focused on high-tech mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, and federal securities law compliance.
Mr. Wrycha is admitted to practice in Wisconsin, California, and Illinois. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics in 1988 from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and his J.D. degree in 1992 from Marquette University Law School, where he was the executive editor of the Marquette Law Review. He was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2008 - 2013 lists of The Best Lawyers in America® and was included in the 2009 - 2012 Wisconsin Super Lawyers® lists.*
*The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.