Riaz Karamali is a counselor and dealmaker who assists clients with negotiating and closing domestic and international venture finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and technology transactions. Karamali has worked with hundreds of start-up and emerging companies, guiding them from their pre-founding stages through their seed and venture-capital financing rounds, significant commercial contracts, and strategic alliances to their ultimate exit transactions. He has acted as outside general counsel to many such privately held companies in a wide range of industries, including blockchain and cryptocurrency, video game, software as a service, financial technology, food tech, biotechnology, semiconductor, energy, and medical device sectors. Karamali also regularly represents investors in such companies.