Joint Ventures & Partnerships

Business combinations in the private market place often take the form of financial or strategic joint ventures and partnerships rather than as mergers or acquisitions.  Typically, closely held and family-owned or entrepreneurial business either buy or sell 100% of a business. When opportunities to work in conjunction with other parties or businesses arise, Blake Street advises clients in structuring joint ventures or partnerships. Joint ventures are of limited scope and duration, and typically involve only a fraction of each participant’s activities. Blake Street assists clients in structuring joint ventures involving distinct or discreet real estate and other projects, existing operating divisions or lines of businesses, geographic territories, or new initiatives or products. We utilize these structures to help clients create effective mechanisms to share risk, combine complimentary resources and knowledge, enter new markets and achieve scale without sacrificing control, business confidentiality and other competitive issues which can arise in traditional mergers. 

Blake Street also assists clients in utilizing joint ventures as a means to protect the governance and control priorities of closely held and family-owned businesses, avoiding complex and costly disputes which may arise from outside investors or parties. Our joint venture structures can be used as effective methods to increase the value of certain portions of the business while remaining in control of the parent company.

Our Joint Ventures & Partnerships practice focuses on the following:

• Real Estate Joint Ventures
• Project Joint Ventures
• Financial, Strategic & Multi-Party
• Special Purpose Vehicles
• Assets, Operations & Entities