Todd Tidgewell
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Todd Tidgewell is a partner in the firm’s Global Business & Transactions Group. His practice is focused on corporate transactional work, covering issues related to the formation, financing and growth of business enterprises and including mergers, acquisitions, capital financing and private equity fund formation. In addition to this transactional work, Todd serves as corporate counsel to a number of emerging technology companies and privately held businesses, and as counsel to private equity, venture capital, and angel investors in connection with their portfolio investments.

Prior to joining Nixon Peabody, Todd was assistant general counsel and vice president of fund development at Village Ventures, Inc., the nation’s largest network of early-stage venture capital funds. While with Village Ventures, Inc., Todd led fund development efforts for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, and was responsible for the formation of several technology-focused venture capital funds; he helped to raise over $160 million in limited partner capital from public and private investors.

Todd is a regular panelist and frequent speaker at events focused on M&A, venture capital, and emerging technology, and has written on the subject of deal structuring and private finance for several publications. He serves as a member of the drafting committee of the National Venture Capital Association’s Standard Forms Project, which released its first set of industry-standard venture capital deal documents in 2004. Todd is founder of the Upstate New York Mergers & Acquisitions Council, of Nixon Peabody’s Help Desk at the RPI Incubator and at Union College’s U-Start Incubator facility, and a member of the Upstate Venture Association of New York.

Admissions

Admitted to practice law in New York and Maryland.

Education

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.
Yale University, B.A.