Victor Budnick has helped organize and nurture over 75 new enterprises,
negotiated or counseled over 100 joint ventures, turnarounds, mergers and acquisitions
and has helped design a number of innovative reward systems now in use in major corporations.
He has consulted on new business development, alliances and joint ventures, core
renewal, and related organizational change to leading manufacturing and service companies,
entrepreneurial firms, and economic development agencies.
Mr. Budnick also provides management services to The Technology Investment Fund,
a venture capital seed fund affiliated with the City of New Haven. TIF, the first
fund of its kind in the U.S., has made successful investments in firms engaged in
telecommunications, biotechnology, computer-related and other technology based businesses.
Mr. Budnick identifies investment candidates, reviews their proposals, structures
and negotiates investments and monitors the investments in these portfolio companies
on an on-going basis.
Previously, Mr. Budnick counseled the Corporate Treasury Department of General Electric
Company on debt and equity financings, securities investment matters, stock repurchases,
acquisitions, dispositions, and legal aspects of other major corporate transactions.
Earlier, he served as Associate Legal Counsel of NCNB Corporation in Charlotte, North
Carolina, one of the nation's largest bank holding companies. Mr. Budnick analyzed
new financial ventures and products, and negotiated private placements, divestitures
and acquisitions, including some of NCNB's innovative interstate activities in Florida.
Mr. Budnick received his early training in mergers, acquisitions and business problem
solving at the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom firm in Boston and New York
City. There, he represented multinational corporate clients and investment banking
firms in joint ventures, asset and stock purchases, tender offers, and other financial
transactions involving corporate control issues.
Mr. Budnick graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, receiving a BA
in American Studies. A JD recipient from Harvard Law School, he later earned a graduate
management degree from the Yale School of Organization and Management, where he was
a Teaching Assistant in New Ventures Marketing.
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