Tara Guarneri-Ferrara, Counsel

Tara Guarneri-Ferrara is counsel in Herrick's corporate department and focuses on domestic and international capital markets, corporate finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions and fund formation and structuring.

Tara advises both fund sponsors and investors on a wide range of investment activities, including fund formation and structuring, capital raising, majority and minority stake investments and establishing sponsor structures. She has advised institutional investors, family offices and fund service providers in a variety of investments including seed or anchor investments as well as with investment platforms.

Tara has extensive experience in advising public and private companies, private equity firms and funds and other clients in U.S. and cross-border joint ventures and strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions and asset and stock acquisitions and dispositions. She advises issuers and investment bankers in private placements of equity and debt securities as well as in initial and follow-on public offerings.

Tara has experience in advising clients on every phase of a private equity’s life cycle including formation, investments, initiatives, buyouts, financing and the purchase and sale of private equity interests. She has counseled both companies and individuals as well as independent private equity firms and divisions of major financial institutions. She advises clients on compliance with registration, proxy solicitation and periodic reporting requirements of the U.S. securities laws and provides general corporate representation.