Eugene Coleman Jr.

Eugene Coleman Jr. is an Associate Attorney with The Advisory PLLC, where he advises clients across corporate M&A, private fund formation, energy finance, sports and entertainment, and outside general counsel matters. His practice is built around helping founders, investors, fund managers, professional athletes, and operating companies structure transactions, organize capital, and build the legal infrastructure around their most important business decisions.

Eugene has closed 25+ M&A transactions and formed 40+ fund structures across 10+ fund families, serving as outside general counsel to private equity funds, portfolio companies, family offices, and operating companies across real estate, healthcare, energy, cannabis, sports, and media. His transaction experience spans leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, recapitalizations, cross-border acquisitions, and institutional capital markets processes.

In the energy sector, he advises clean energy developers and green technology companies on intercompany structuring, SAFE instruments, green bond financing, power purchase agreements, EPC contracts, and construction loan documentation. In sports and entertainment, he serves as outside counsel to professional athletes on entity formation, trademark registration, media venture structuring, brand and merchandising transactions, and business venture advisory.

Before The Advisory, Eugene served as a Corporate Private Equity Associate at McGuireWoods LLP, where he focused on private equity M&A, venture capital transactions, deal structuring, and due diligence. During law school, he was an early team member at Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, where he led programming and testing of contract clause intelligence models. He also served as a Venture Capital Fellow at High Street Equity Partners in Washington, DC, advising on fund formation, management company capital raises, and early-stage venture diligence.

Eugene earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, with a concentration in corporate law, M&A, and securities. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he studied Pre-Law, Politics and Government, and Spanish, and was a three-sport varsity athlete competing in football, basketball, and track and field. He is admitted to the Florida Bar.

“Good transaction strategy is not just about closing the deal. It is about structuring the opportunity so the capital, control, incentives, and risk all line up before execution.”