Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Strategic judgment. Enterprise scale. Results under pressure. I am a BigLaw corporate-law trained, C-suite legal and business executive who has spent the last 25+ years operating at the intersection of strategy, governance, capital markets, and execution—advising CEOs, boards, founders, and private-equity sponsors through moments that define enterprise value. My career has been built inside complex, high-growth organizations ranging from pre-IPO to multi-billion-dollar public companies, where legal leadership is inseparable from business outcomes. I have led global legal, compliance, governance, and risk functions while serving as a trusted operating partner to CEOs, CFOs, Chief Revenue Officers, Chief People Officers and Chief Information Officers during transformational events—including IPOs, go-private transactions, PE exits, and strategic M&A. Most recently, as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Dotmatics, I was hired as the company’s first CLO to prepare the business for an IPO or sale. I built and scaled the global legal function, supported a high-velocity acquisition strategy, partnered with revenue leadership to accelerate deal execution, and ultimately led the legal strategy and execution of Dotmatics’ $5.12B sale to Siemens, delivering a 39x forward EBITDA multiple. Previously, as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Cvent, I served as a core member of the executive leadership team from IPO through multiple exits—a $135M IPO, a $1.65B Vista PE take-private (69% premium), and a $5.3B de-SPAC IPO—while scaling the organization to 4,000+ employees globally and navigating COVID-era disruption with sustained net revenue retention above 100%. Across roles, my remit has consistently extended beyond “legal”: • Enterprise risk, governance, and board leadership • Capital structure, executive compensation, and equity strategy • M&A and post-merger integration • Global compliance, privacy, cybersecurity, and ESG • Interim executive leadership, including Global Head of HR I am most effective in environments where judgment, trust, and velocity matter—helping leadership teams evaluate tradeoffs, manage risk as a growth enabler, and execute decisively during periods of transformation. Today, I partner with CEOs, boards, and sponsors who need a commercially grounded legal executive—someone who can operate as a business leader, not a gatekeeper, and who has repeatedly delivered at scale when the stakes are highest.
As Chief Legal Officer, Larry overseas Semperis’ legal strategy, deal execution, corporate governance, compliance and corporate affairs. He manages a team of 8 professionals.
• Hired to prepare the company for an IPO or strategic sale. • Successfully managed the strategic sale of Dotmatics to Siemens AG for $5.12B (39x forward EBITDA). • Oversaw all global legal, compliance, AI governance and data privacy matters for Dotmatics, a leader in pre-clinical R&D scientific software (delivered both on-prem and via cloud). Managed a global legal team comprised of 3 legal professionals. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align legal strategies with business objectives, enhancing decision-making processes, efficiency and scale. Sponsor: Insight Partners
• Hired to prepare the company for an IPO and implement public company Board governance. I successfully managed Cvent’s 2013 IPO (NYSE: CVT), 2016 go-private sale to Vista Private Equity, and 2021 go-public via de-SPAC (Nasdaq: CVT). • Responsible for all of Cvent’s legal, privacy, regulatory, compliance and Board affairs. I oversaw M&A, privacy steering committee, credit facility refinancing and covenant compliance, SaaS licensing, employment matters, IP, litigation management and SEC reporting, managing a global legal team of 16 legal professionals. Sponsor: Vista Private Equitiy
Cvent is a private-equity backed high-growth SaaS company with a comprehensive suite of products that automate and simplify the entire event management process and maximize the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Sponsors: Insight Partners and New Enterprise Associates
I served as a key leader that executed the CEO’s goal to transform the telecommunications company into a data management company. I was responsible for all legal aspects of NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) public company compliance, executive compensation, M&A, corporate finance, commercial contracts and employment matters. Managed 2 securities lawyers and the 5-person contracts management team.
As Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, I provided strategic legal advice to the C-Suite and Board regarding all legal aspects of DynCorp (NYSE: DCP) public company compliance, M&A, corporate finance and public relations. In July 2010, I managed the go-private sale and LBO financing of DynCorp to Cerberus Capital Management. Sponsors: Veritas Capital (until 2010); Cerberus Capital Management.