Vela Wood is proud to represent founders and companies through every stage of a transaction, from first conversation to closing. As a result of our strong venture practice, the majority of our work is sell-side: mergers, asset and equity sales, management buyouts, divestitures, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings. We concentrate on the lower middle market – transactions of $75M and below – where a boutique that understands your business delivers more than a large firm treating you as one matter among thousands.
In recent years, we have become the go-to boutique firm for a handful of unicorns looking for a quicker, more cost-effective option for lower middle market acquisitions. Similarly, we routinely advise search funds from formation through their platform and add-on acquisitions. Vela Wood operates with both fixed and traditional hourly options to provide fee transparency to our clients.
What sets us apart from most boutiques is depth. Our corporate attorneys lead each transaction and draw directly on our in-house tax, intellectual property, venture, employment, and real estate teams as the deal requires. Every discipline a transaction demands sits under one roof, and the work is coordinated by attorneys who know the deal and know each other.
Vela Wood is recognized by Chambers in its 2025 USA Regional Spotlight Guide as a leading small-to-medium law firm in Texas for our corporate practice. To date, we have closed more than $2.2B in M&A transaction value.
Select Transactions
- Represented a real estate software company in a $65M exit to a publicly-traded company
- Represented a SaaS company in its $50M acquisition by a private equity fund
- Represented a services company in its $60M acquisition by a publicly-traded private equity fund
- Represented an e-commerce company in a $50M exit to a private equity firm
- Represented a telecommunications company in its $35M acquisition by a private equity fund
- Represented a home health agency in its $35M exit to a private equity fund
- Represented defi SOLUTIONS in its merger with Sagent Auto
- Represented an artificial intelligence company with operations in Brazil and the United States in its acquisition by a Brazilian fintech
- Represented an events company in its merger with a larger competitor
- Represented multiple search funds through formation, equity raises, platform and add-on acquisitions, and acquisition financing
