W. Robert Gold
Managing Director, The Chicago Corporation

Mr. Gold was trained as a lawyer. He has over 15 years worth of experience in structuring and executing transactions on both his own behalf and for a wide variety of primarily family-held middle-market enterprises in real estate development, manufacturing and intellectual property.

His primary area of expertise involves tax-related issues with a concentration on structuring businesses and transactions utilizing partnerships and other flow-through entities. Mr. Gold’s legal practice also has involved corporate advice including ownership-transition planning and governance, and the private placement and syndication of securities.

Prior to The Chicago Corporation, Mr. Gold had been a Managing Director of FOCUS, LLC providing M&A advisory services to private and closely-held middle market companies and was a partner in XAltitude, LLC. XAltitude co-invests in primarily technology start-ups or sole-source government suppliers, injects new technologies and then acts as an operating partner. 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 bank, 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 instrumental in its Corporate Finance Department sale of valuable portfolios of intellectual property for Fortune 100 companies and others.

Previously Mr. Gold was a partner in the tax group of Sachnoff & Weaver (now, Reed Smith). 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. He is a member of the Illinois Bar.

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