ROSE BAY VENTURES

Corporate and Transactional Advisory

Experienced guidance for founders, CEOs and boards, from the first raise to a listing and through a restructuring

Rose Bay Ventures is led by M. Dilshad Kasmani, who has spent more than 20 years as a lawyer and executive, including service as General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer and President at public and private companies in energy, infrastructure and technology.

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Rose Bay Ventures compass mark
$8B+in transactions directed and negotiated
2companies taken public
4listed companies served as an executive or in-house counsel
12countries with subsidiary board service

Across the life of a company

Dilshad has held the senior legal and executive seat at each of these stages, in public and private companies.

01

Start-up and growth

Senior judgment before a full-time executive makes sense, and the first institutional capital

  • Co-founder and Chief Legal Officer of EnergiAcres
  • Advisor to technology, energy and infrastructure companies since 2021

02

Going public

Governance, disclosure and investor readiness before the market asks for them

  • Took Nauticus Robotics (NASDAQ) and ManifestSeven (CSE) public
  • Built legal, compliance, HR and investor relations functions from the ground up

03

Public company

Board discipline, disclosure, investor relations and a structure that works across borders

  • Company Secretary of Cardtronics; led its re-domestication from Delaware to a UK plc
  • Led government affairs and co-led investor relations at Nauticus

04

Restructuring

A steady hand through a restructuring, divestment, delisting or sale

  • As President of ManifestSeven, led its restructuring and asset divestment
  • At American Midstream Partners, advised through the delisting and onshore asset divestments

What Rose Bay Ventures does

Strategic Advisory

  • Growth, capital and business-model strategy
  • A trusted counselor to the CEO on sensitive decisions
  • Board and leadership alignment on major decisions

Transactions

  • Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures
  • Capital raises and IPO readiness
  • Restructurings and re-domestications

Board and Governance

  • Board operations, committees and the corporate secretary function
  • Governance for public companies and companies preparing to list
  • Subsidiary governance across jurisdictions

Government Affairs and Investor Relations

  • Strategy for government and investor audiences
  • Managing outside lobbyists and investor relations advisors
  • Speaking for the company where appropriate

Also available as a consulting and testifying expert on corporate governance, securities and public-company practice, and M&A.

How engagements work

Fractional

A standing monthly engagement for ongoing strategic and governance support.

Transaction or project

Scoped to a defined deal, raise or restructuring, from preparation through close.

Board and CEO advisory

Periodic counsel to the CEO and board on strategy, governance and major decisions.

Each engagement starts with a scoping conversation to define the mandate, the deliverables and the right structure.

Cross-border and transatlantic work

Experience setting up and running operations outside the US, and helping companies move between the US and Europe in both directions.

Operating and subsidiary board experience in

  • United States
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • Brazil
  • United Kingdom
  • Ireland
  • Luxembourg
  • Germany
  • Poland
  • Spain
  • Norway
  • South Africa
  • Australia
  • New Zealand

Into the United States

  • US entity structure and governance for a foreign-owned subsidiary
  • Board, officer and corporate secretary setup
  • Capital raising, transaction and investor readiness in the US
  • One point of coordination between headquarters, home-country advisors and US counsel

Beyond the United States

  • Re-domestications and cross-border reorganizations
  • Holding and finance company structures across jurisdictions
  • Subsidiary governance and local boards
  • Working with local counsel and advisors

Board service

Available for private and public company board seats, including special committee assignments.

Current boards

American Offshore MineralsDirector
EnergiAcresDirector

What he brings to a board

  • Corporate secretary to three listed-company boards, working with the chair and committee chairs on governance requirements, emerging issues and board calendars
  • Director of operating subsidiaries in 12 countries
  • A practical fit for special and transaction committees on M&A, conflicted transactions and restructurings
  • Boards preparing for a listing, an institutional raise or a sale
  • Defense and dual-use technology, including government affairs
  • Risk and crisis judgment from more than 20 years of Navy Reserve service
M. Dilshad Kasmani

M. Dilshad Kasmani

Managing Partner

Dilshad has spent more than 20 years as a lawyer and executive for companies raising capital, going public, expanding across borders and restructuring. He has been General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Administrative Officer and President, after starting his career in the corporate practices of Andrews Kurth (now Hunton Andrews Kurth) and Paul Hastings.

He founded Rose Bay Ventures in 2021 to bring that experience to founders, CEOs and boards without the cost of a full-time executive.

  • J.D., South Texas College of Law
  • M.A., Economics, and B.A., Economics and Political Science, University of Houston
  • Commander, U.S. Navy Reserve
  • Prior government service as chief economist in the third-largest county in the US

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