Isabel Marchetti
Managing Partner · M&A
Led 120+ acquisitions at a top-five deal firm before founding Meridian. Sell-side specialist for founder-owned companies.
Corporate · M&A · Venture · Governance — New York
The counsel behind the transaction.
Meridian advises founders, funds, and boards through the moments that define companies — raising, acquiring, exiting, governing. Institutional rigor, boutique attention, partner-only staffing.
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Transaction value closed
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M&A and financing deals
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Portfolio & public boards advised
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Median signing-to-close, 2025
Capabilities
Six disciplines.
One standard.
No leverage model, no associates learning on your file. Every matter is handled by a partner who has closed a hundred like it.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Buy-side and sell-side representation from LOI to closing — diligence, negotiation, and integration-ready documentation.
View capability → 02Venture & Growth Financing
Priced rounds, SAFEs, and secondaries for companies and the funds that back them. Standard terms, sharpened.
View capability → 03Corporate Governance
Board counsel, special committees, fiduciary guidance, and the judgment calls that never make the minutes.
View capability → 04Commercial Contracts
Master agreements, licensing, and strategic partnerships — drafted for the dispute you hope never happens.
View capability → 05Fund Formation
Venture, growth, and search funds: LPAs, side letters, and regulatory structuring from first close to final.
View capability → 06Outside General Counsel
Fractional GC engagements for scaling companies — a standing partner on call, at a predictable monthly fee.
View capability →Approach
Deal velocity is a discipline.
We staff lean, respond same-day, and pre-build precedent libraries for the deals you're likely to do next. Speed isn't rushed — it's rehearsed.
MEDIAN DAYS: TERM SHEET → CLOSEMERIDIAN vs. AMLAW-100 AVERAGE
Pre-built precedent
Deal documents templated to your cap table and playbook before a term sheet exists — diligence rooms open in hours, not weeks.
Partner-only staffing
Your emails go to the person who negotiates your deal. Median partner experience across the firm: nineteen years.
Fee certainty
Fixed fees or capped estimates on 90% of matters. The invoice should never be the surprising part of a transaction.
Team
Partners, not pyramids.
Four partners. Zero hand-offs. Backgrounds spanning Big Law M&A, in-house venture counsel, and the SEC.
Daniel Kwon
Partner · Venture & Funds
Former GC of a multi-stage venture fund; has papered 400+ financings from pre-seed SAFEs to $200M growth rounds.
Anika Venkataraman
Partner · Governance
Six years in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance. Boards call Anika when the question is "can we — and should we?"
Thomas Brandt
Partner · Commercial
Two decades drafting the agreements revenue runs on — enterprise MSAs, licensing, and strategic alliances.
Client References
What the other side of the table says.
"Meridian ran our $180M exit with a two-partner team that outworked the acquirer's forty-lawyer bench. Every founder in my portfolio gets their number now."
CEO & co-founderEnterprise SaaS · sell-side M&A"They flagged the governance issue eight months before it would have blocked our raise. That's the difference between counsel and paperwork."
Board chairClimate infrastructure · Series C"Fixed fee, eleven days to close, zero drama. Our fund treats Meridian as a competitive advantage we'd rather competitors not learn about."
Managing partnerGrowth equity fund · buy-sideEngage
Bring us the deal on your desk.
Conflicts check and engagement terms within one business day. If we're not the right counsel, we'll say so — and tell you who is.
Phone+1 212 555 0175
Email[email protected]
Office545 Madison Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10022