W. Robert Gold
Managing Director, Focus, LLC

Robert Gold was trained as a lawyer and has almost 15 years worth of experience in structuring and executing transactions on his own behalf and on behalf of his clients. He has represented a wide range of clients in numerous fields.

His legal practice was primarily focused on tax, corporate and securities matters. His primary area of expertise was on tax-related issues, with a particular concentration on structuring businesses and transactions utilizing partnerships and other flow-through entities. Mr. Gold’s legal practice also involved providing corporate advice, particularly ownership-transition planning and execution as well as on governance issues, and providing securities advice, primarily on syndications and other private placements. While Mr. Gold’s clients included companies of various sizes, he focused his practice on family-held and middle-market enterprises.

Mr. Gold’s clients were involved in a wide variety of businesses, but were primarily concentrated in real estate development, manufacturing and intellectual property, and these clients were at various stages of their life-cycles, from start-ups in nascent industries to mature companies in established markets.

Prior to joining Focus, Mr. Gold was a partner in XAltitude, LLC. XAltitude makes investments, with capital partners, in companies, injects new technologies into these targets and then acts as an operating partner. XAltitude has been involved with sole-source government suppliers as well as several technology-related start-up companies. At the same time, Mr. Gold assisted in the sale of several intellectual property portfolios and advised clients on legal and operational issues facing their businesses.

Mr. Gold served as Director of Legal Affairs for Ocean Tomo, LLC, an intellectual property merchant banc, where he was responsible for all legal issues facing the company, including regulatory, real estate and employment matters. He was also responsible for managing the firm’s relationships with its outside counsel. While at Ocean Tomo, Mr. Gold was also instrumental in the firm’s Corporate Finance Department, which specialized in the sale of valuable portfolios of intellectual property for Fortune 100 companies and others.

Previously, Mr. Gold practiced law with Sachnoff & Weaver (now, Reed Smith) where he was a partner in the tax group. Prior to that, he was with Schiff, Hardin & Waite and Shefsky & Froelich.

Mr. Gold holds a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, and is a member of the Illinois Bar.

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