Jeff Bodle

Partner - Business and Finance and Emerging Business and Technology Practices Company NameMorgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Dates EmployedAug 1999 – Present Employment Duration18 yrs 6 mos LocationGreater Philadelphia Area With 26 offices and over 1600 legal professionals in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive transactional, litigation, labor and employment, regulatory, and intellectual property legal services to clients of all sizes—from global Fortune 100 companies to just-conceived startups—across all major industries. Our Business and Finance Practice is composed of more than 400 lawyers who focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including joint ventures, spin-offs, and strategic alliances, as well as private equity, private investment fund, finance, restructuring, capital markets, corporate governance, emerging business, outsourcing, real estate, and tax matters. In combination with the diverse legal resources of an international law firm, our Emerging Business and Technology practice offers long-term commitment to emerging growth businesses from start-up to maturity. We have experience with all aspects of the emerging growth company life cycle — company formations, financings, partnering and collaborations, executive compensation, employment matters, intellectual property protection, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansions. We serve over 800 emerging business and technology clients firmwide and have completed more than $5 billion in venture financing transactions in the last five years. We are ranked the #1 most active law firm globally based on the number of private funds worked on for limited partners in the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst (2010–2013) and as a top 10 M&A transactions firm in Thomson, Mergermarket, Bloomberg, and Buyouts (2014). We have completed over 600 M&A transactions, with a combined value of more than $200 billion, in the last five years and are ranked as a top 15 law firm for venture capital and emerging companies in the Legal 500 (2013). I began my career as an associate at Morgan Lewis in 1999 and was elevated to the partnership in 2007.