Driscoll R. Ugarte
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
Boca Center Tower II
5100 Town Center Circle, Suite 650
Boca Raton, FL 33486-9000
USA
Phone: +1 561 962 2139
Fax: +1 561 634 4260
Email: DRUgarte@duanemorris.com

Driscoll R. Ugarte practices in the area of corporate law. He has experience in the areas of private equity financings, emerging companies, mergers and acquisitions, securities and general corporate law. He counsels public, domestic and foreign corporations through all stages of development, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, tender offers, proxy contests, going-private transactions, and recapitalizations. Driscoll advises public and private business organizations in a broad and general capacity, drafting documents and contracts incidental to formation and on-going business operations of corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, and preparing transactional documents related to asset and stock sales. He also advises start-up companies and entrepreneurs, venture capital companies and underwriters.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Ugarte served as a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District.

Mr. Ugarte is a 2002 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a cum laude graduate of the University of Florida.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate Law

Representative Matters

• Advised a Florida-based designer, importer, distributor and licensor of men's apparel in connection with its $150 million bond offering, $150 million "universal shelf" and $40 million public stock offering.
• Counseled a drug delivery technology and generic pharmaceutical company in connection with its $23.4 million and $5.5 million private offerings of partnership interests.
• Assisted a foreign private issuer with a public follow-on offering of $43 million of ordinary shares.
• Represented a public internet-based weight-loss company in the acquisition of a private nutrition company.

Professional Activities

• The Florida Bar
• Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Palm Beach County

Admissions

• Florida

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2002
• University of Florida, B.A., cum laude, 1999

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2013-present
• Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  - Associate, 2005-2013
• Broad and Cassel, P.A.
  - Associate, 2003-2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  - Law Clerk, 2002-2003

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Palm Beach County School Board
  - Member, Independent Sales-Surtax Oversight Committee, 2005-present

Selected Publications

• Co-author, "SEC Eliminates Prohibition on General Solicitation in Certain Private Securities Offerings," Duane Morris Alert, July 15, 2013