A boutique built for the inflection point.
A corporate and private-capital boutique, small enough that a partner answers and deep enough to carry a deal across three time zones. This is who we are, how we work, and the record behind it.
In brief
Hart David Carson LLP is a corporate and private-capital boutique. We represent companies, founders, sponsors, and family offices at the moments that decide a company's direction: the sale, the raise, and the entrance into a market that does not yet have rules.
We work as often with founders and families as with the companies they own. The team that structures a transaction also understands the people, the capital, and the legacy on the other side of it, because for most of our clients those questions cannot be separated. And where a matter crosses a border we carry it ourselves, from Chicago, London, and Dubai, with a partner network of independent firms behind the partner on your matter.
Hart David Carson LLP was founded in 2013 in Chicago’s western suburbs and has since grown across three time zones. One standard applies in every office, and most of the work our clients value is never seen.
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People
A partner-led firm, with a bench of focused counsel and partner-network firms named to your matter at engagement. One partner is accountable for the whole matter, and you have that partner's direct line.
More →Frontier
Early counsel to industries whose rules were still being written, and still there as several of them became established industries.
More →Approach
We work the file with senior attention and adversarial diligence, and we put every deal through The Pressure Test, stress-testing it the way the other side will.
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The history, the offices, and the firm facts, including where the firm began and the standards it has kept.
More →The scale
First, where
it's hard.
The clearest case for a firm is its record of being early. We were among the first counsel to industries the market wouldn't touch, and we stayed as the rules arrived, the capital followed, and the frontier became the mainstream.