Erik Velapoldi
Erik Velapoldi is a senior legal leader with decades of legal experience as outside and inside counsel. He advises companies and individuals on a broad range of legal matters, ranging from strategic transactions, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt investments, commercial contracting, licensing, corporate governance, compliance, litigation management, employment, executive compensation, internal investigations and other general corporate matters. He provides outside/fractional general counsel services to companies as well as consulting to in-house legal teams on substantive and operational matters. He has particular experience in the technology, medical device and biotech industries. Having served as in-house counsel for 15+ years and managed outside counsel relations, he is especially attuned to the needs in-house counsel have of their external advisors and brings that perspective to his work at Mosaic.
Erik joined Mosaic from Terumo BCT, Inc., a Colorado-based global medical technology company. There, for 15+ years he led strategic transactions such as acquisitions and divestitures, strategic alliances, and long term development and supply arrangements. He built and managed a global compliance program, constructed and mentored a global legal team of a dozen attorneys and staff, and advised senior executives on critical risks and opportunities affecting the business. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Bioscience Association.
Prior to Terumo BCT, he was a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where as part of Northern Virginia’s leading emerging company practice he advised many startup, emerging growth and established companies on corporate transactions, venture capital and securities law matters. He also served as counsel and associate at Shaw Pittman LLP in Northern Virginia, Tucker Flyer & Lewis PC in Washington DC, and Semmes Bowen & Semmes in Baltimore, MD.
Erik is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Virginia and Colorado. He lives in Colorado with his wife Laura, their two children and one dog. He enjoys skiing, fly fishing, hiking and playing the Hammond B3, and he is fluent in Norwegian.
Erik can be reached at erik@mosaiclegalgroup.com or (202) 600-2262, or on his cell at (303) 585-1487..