William H. Schwab

Bill’s representative clients include Great Hill Partners, Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street Partners, M/C Partners, Gurnet Point Capital, Luxor Capital Group, and Housatonic Partners, among others. Bill is also general outside counsel to a number of private companies, including Bombas, Connectivity Wireless, CustomInk, QMC Telecom International, and Second Nature, among others. Transactions representative of Bill’s practice include:

• Great Hill Partners’ investments in Bombas, CustomInk, Second Nature, Notonthehighstreet.com, and subsequent strategic bolt-on acquisitions.
• Sixth Street Partners’ $40 million preferred equity investment in Medsphere Systems, Inc.
• Gurnet Point Capital in multiple early and later-stage investment transactions and recapitalizations.
• Housatonic Partners’ growth investment in Key Media, a multi-national B2B media business.
• Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity’s joint acquisition of Varicent Software from IBM.
• Connectivity Wireless’ acquisition of a wireless infrastructure developer.
• Connectivity Wireless’ acquisition of wireless infrastructure manager Simplifi Wireless.
• Luxor Capital’s growth equity and debt investments in multiple US, LatAm, and European internet and social media businesses.
• Global investment banking, securities, and investment management company in numerous investment and sales transactions and recapitalizations.
• Thayer Street Partners in multiple secondary investments in private media and technology companies.
• US-based venture fund in connection with its investment in Flixbus.

Bill is very active in the community, volunteering his time for pro bono matters such as coordinating a benefits assistance project for wounded combat veterans, and representing an asylum applicant fleeing political violence in Burundi.

Bill served as co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Committee on Venture Capital and Emerging Companies.