Overview
Alexander Temel is global Co-Chair of the Private Equity practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Boston office.
Alex focuses his practice on advising private equity clients in connection with leveraged recapitalizations, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, structured preferred and growth equity investments, and search fund transactions. Alex regularly represents clients in the software, financial services, business and consumer services, oil and gas, real estate, healthcare, and media industries. He also serves as primary general counsel to a number of privately held companies and represents entrepreneurs and management teams in connection with rollover transactions and new ventures.
Alex’s representative private equity clients include Aesthetic Partners, Arches Medical Partners, Goldman Sachs, Great Hill Partners, Housatonic Partners, Sixth Street, Thayer Street Partners, and TVV Capital, among others. He also represents more than 50 search funds and related investors, in addition to serving as primary general counsel to a number of private companies, including BigChange, Buyers Edge Platform, EnterpriseDB, Arches Medical Partners, Global Rescue, Ikon Science, Locus Robotics, Not On The High Street, QMC Telecom International, Prodege, TodayTix, and Varicent.
Recognitions
- The Legal 500, Recognized for Corporate and M&A Latin America (2023-2024)
- Chambers USA - Nationwide, Recognized as a leading lawyer for Private Equity: Buyouts (2007-2024)
- Recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, an annual program held in association with the Library of Congress and designed to reward major achievements in the law
Education
- Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1996
- Washington University, MBA, 1993
- Cornell University, B.A., 1991
Representations
Alex’s representative transactions include:
- Goldman Sachs in numerous investment transactions including: AlphaSense; Aras; Commerce Media (d/b/a NTWRK); DataStax; Deepwatch; Egnyte, Inc.; eVisit; GridPoint; GumGum; iboss; Infinidat, Inc.; Information Builders, Inc.; Innovid; Keal Energy; LeanTaaS; ON24, Inc.; Netskope; Nextiva; Paycor, Inc.; Revionics; SAVO Group; SingleStore; SkySpecs; Sontra Holdings, Inc.; tenKsolar; Visier; Zilliant; and Zipwhip.
- Great Hill Partners (and its portfolio companies) in numerous investment, acquisition, and sale transactions, including: 2ndQuadrant; Enterprise DB; Arches Medical Partners and The Onion; Ikon Science; Prodege; Sugarfina, Inc.; Terminus; Varicent; xMatters; and Wayzata Home Products.
- Sixth Street in multiple investment transactions, including: Atlas; Bloomreach; Guesty; Keyfactor; Logile; MasterControl; MedSphere; and SnapLogic.
- Locus Robotics in its US$150 million Series E funding, led by Tiger Global Management and BOND, its US$117 million Series F funding, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and G2 Venture Partners, and its acquisition of Waypoint Robotics.
- CA Healthcare Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company focused on investing in a growth-oriented healthcare company, in its business combination with LumiraDx Limited, a next-generation point-of-care diagnostics testing company. The transaction had an implied pro formaequity value of US$3 billion.
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.
Engagement & Publications
- Speaker, “Legal Diligence and Structuring in a Search Acquisition,” Think Like An Owner Podcast, September 5, 2023.
- Speaker, “Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition - Search Funds,” UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles, CA, February 18, 2021.
- Speaker, “Due Diligence in the Search Fund Space: Pitfalls, Ideas and Improvements,” Search Fund Alliance, Virtual Roundtable, August 19, 2021.
- Speaker, “One Year into a Global Pandemic: How is the Search Community Approaching Deals in the New Year?,” Search Fund Alliance, Virtual Roundtable, January 12, 2021.
- Speaker, “After COVID-19, How Will the Landscape for Searchers be Changed?,” Search Fund Alliance, Virtual Roundtable, May 13, 2020.
- Speaker, “Key Updates and Issues on the Search Model,” Search Fund Alliance Summit, Boston, MA, December 9, 2019.
- Speaker, “State of the Industry: Private Equity Funds,” Sidley Austin LLP Private Funds 2019: Developments and Opportunities, New York, NY, March 6, 2019.
- Speaker, “Closing the Deal,” The Third Annual Search Fund Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, December 3, 2017.
Involvement
- Alex is president and chair of the board of Clubs for Kids, a charity that partners with junior golf programs around the world to provide golf equipment to youth in under-resourced communities.
- Search Fund Alliance