Christopher E. Geotes

Chris Geotes is a Partner in the Business and Corporate practice group at Martin LLP. His corporate practice focuses on the representation of companies in three general categories – mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and outside general counsel services.

Many of Chris’s corporate clients are financial, technology and manufacturing companies. Chris represents M&A clients on both the buy and sell side, and his equity finance experience touches every phase of financing, from seed money and angel investing through venture capital, private equity and institutional investment. Chris also supports Martin LLP’s debt finance team on transactions involving vehicles such as lines of credit, term loans, revolving loans, secured and unsecured promissory notes, and convertible notes.

Chris’s outside general counsel services are more focused on his clients’ day-to-day legal needs. This work often includes assisting clients with the drafting and negotiation of customer contracts, vendor/supplier agreements, equity incentive plans and employment agreements, as well as providing guidance on risk mitigation strategies.

As an adviser, Chris strives to take a holistic approach to assessing the needs of his clients and how they’ll be served by the particular financing methodology they’re utilizing. Whenever possible, he seeks to understand in detail the management team, business, operations and long-term objectives of his clients, and also works to help them explore perhaps previously unconsidered alternatives to their planned strategy, as well as their exit strategy.

Chris was born and raised in Stamford, and still lives here with his wife Marie and his son Noah. Chris maintains an active pro bono practice focused on local non-profit organizations, including his current service as Pro Bono Counsel to Building One Community and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Stamford Public Education Foundation (SPEF).