E. Peter Alvarez Associate T +1 (617) 248-4092 | [email protected] Peter Alvarez joined the Firm in 2016, and is a member of Choate’s EDUCATION Private Equity Group. Boston University School of Law JD, 2014 He represents private equity and venture capital funds in mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, growth equity investments, recapitalizations, and control investments in a variety of industries, Boston College including healthcare, technology, life sciences and financial services BA, 2006 across the U.S. and internationally. He also provides education- related pro bono counsel through Choate’s affiliation with the EdLaw Project. Prior to law school, Mr. Alvarez was a middle school teacher. PRACTICE FOCUS Private Equity Represents private equity funds in a broad range of transactions, including platform and add-on acquisitions, carve-outs and other divestitures, leveraged buyouts, majority and minority recapitalizations, and growth equity investments. Business & Technology Represents private companies in a variety of industries in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital equity financings, equity issuances, commercial agreements and general corporate work. Mergers & Acquisitions Represents portfolio companies, management teams and closely-held businesses in negotiating investments, buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions. REPRESENTATIVE ENGAGEMENTS • Represented Great Hill Partners in its $1.8 billion sale of Ascenty, the leading data center company in Brazil, to Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR). • Represented Riverside Partners in its acquisition of a security alarm funding business, Alarm Funding Associates, LLC, from Keyser Capital, LLC, a Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. subsidiary. • Represented Eliassen Group, LLC in the sale of its IT staffing business to Stone Point Capital. • Represented Rodeo Dental & Orthodontics in its investment from Bain Capital Double Impact. CHOATE.COM ADMISSIONS Massachusetts • Represented Mainsail Partners in its growth equity investment in PeraHealth, Inc., a California company that specializes in predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions that owns the Rothman Index. PRACTICE AREAS Private Equity • Represented BV Investment Partners in the sale of Plasco ID, a leading provider of access control and visitor management solutions, to Barcodes Group, Inc., a Business & Technology portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners. Mergers & Acquisitions • Represented BV Investment Partners in the carve-out sale of Health Information Designs, a national leader in analytics and pharmacy management, to KEPRO. • Represented Summit Partners and its portfolio company Club Champion, a leading provider of custom golf club fitting services, in its sale to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners. • Represented Volition Capital in its investment in Broker Genius, an event ticket- pricing technology company. • Represented a private equity fund in the leveraged buyout of a healthcare IT cloud services provider. • Represented Threat Stack, a leader in cloud infrastructure security, in its acquisition of Bluefyre, an application security vendor. • Represented Trinity Partners, a life sciences and pharmaceutical strategy consulting firm, in their investment from Parthenon Capital Partners. • Represented Answers Corporation in the carve-out sale of its subsidiary Webcollage, Inc., the developer of a SaaS platform that offers a suite of content management services for brands and retailers. • Represented EXFO Inc., a Canadian provider of test automation and real-time 3D analytics solutions, in its acquisition of Absolute Analysis, Inc. • Represented a PE-backed wireless operator in their joint venture agreement with another wireless provider to combine their businesses in Puerto Rico. • Represented an Indian venture capital fund in the secondary sale of limited partnership interests. PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Mr. Alvarez is a member of the Boston Bar Association. He is an alumnus of the Teach for America program. He currently serves as a board member for Strategies for Youth and is a member of the Boston University Law Alumni Executive Committee. He also is the Chair on the Board of Directors at Union Capital Boston. .