Fashion & Luxury: Where Creativity Meets Capital
I am a lawyer and strategic advisor. My law firm, Pearce LLP, was founded in 2003. For two decades I’ve negotiated successful deals for creative leaders and business founders in the fashion and luxury industry.
Today I also represent and advise investors/private equity securing the creative capital, negotiating the deals that set up success and capture maximum value at exit.
For Investors & Private Equity >
I help increase transaction value and decrease risk by understanding and evaluating the intangibles that are critical to company value in the sector.
I support investor objectives through structuring and governance while providing effective incentives for founder retention.
Post-closing, I help maintain founder alignment and support strategy implementation during the growth process and to exit.
For Creative Leaders & Founders >
For creative professionals, I help to achieve their priorities in employment and severance agreements, complex LTI’s and other critical transactions.
For founders, I structure and negotiate M&A transactions to help them achieve durable, mutually productive investor partnerships.
In all cases, I seek to create practical agreements that balance creative priorities with business objectives.
My background includes Columbia Law School and a Clerkship in the Southern District of NY. I began my legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. I then spent a decade practicing entertainment law before focusing on fashion and luxury. I founded Pearce LLP in 2003. The practice maintains a business presence in NYC and Paris, and I am fluent in French.
“Imagine you’re a designer with talent dripping from your fingertips - Gucci wants you. Prada wants you. You want Elizabeth Pearce...” “…the fashion lawyer extraordinaire…”