Joe Derrigo is a business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP where he is a member of the Transactional & Securities and Private Equity & Venture Capital Practices, as well as the Sports and Technology Industry Teams.

Mr. Derrigo advises both public and private company clients in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments. His broad corporate practice also includes counseling on general operational matters and structuring and negotiating commercial agreements, technology license agreements, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Mr. Derrigo has extensive experience negotiating complex mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (both buy and sell-side). In the emerging company space, he represents venture capital firms in debt and equity financing transactions, and counsels start-up and emerging companies on governance, operational, investment and growth-related matters. In the sports industry, Mr. Derrigo advises on controlling and non-controlling investments, as well as media rights, sponsorship, licensing and other strategic arrangements.