Donna Brooks counsels clients in diverse industries, including healthcare, bioscience, agri-business, technology, services and manufacturing. Her clients include emerging growth companies and middle market companies, including cooperatives and public companies. Donna assists her clients “in the business of doing business.” She provides practical advice with respect to business organization, business operations and contracting, corporate governance, asset management, finance, capital raising, private and public securities offerings, equity compensation, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Donna also assists development stage companies with research and development agreements, including sponsored research and consulting agreements with universities and their faculty and technology transfer offices. Donna also assists companies with both federal and state securities laws compliance and with the preparation and filing of SEC periodic reports, registration statements, Section 16 stock ownership reports and proxy materials.
In addition to being a business counselor, Donna represents institutional investors, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds and other private investment funds, as well as governmental and quasi-governmental lenders. Donna has assisted private investment funds in making numerous portfolio investments in diverse industries, including retail and consumer goods, manufacturing and health services. She has also assisted with the structure and administration of the funding of stem cell initiatives in Connecticut. She also represents institutional investors in making alternative investments with varying investment objectives, which have included channel finance, credit default obligations, low-income housing and historic rehabilitation tax credits and real estate, both in the United States and internationally. She has also assisted various endowments in vetting and engaging investment managers.
- BV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer®: Securities & Corporate Finance; 2006, 2008-2010
- Appointed Member, Securities Advisory Council and Hedge Fund Subcommittee, Connecticut Department of Banking
- Past Appointed Member, Business Advisory Committee, Connecticut Secretary of the State
- Connecticut Venture Group, Hartford Chapter
- Crossroads Venture Fair: Mentor, Start-up Companies
- Alliance for Connecticut Technology - Technology Summit
- Connecticut United for Research Excellence, Inc. (CURE): Member
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Hartford County Bar Association