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Charles Torres

Charles Torres

Partner
Vice Chair, Emerging Growth and Venture Capital
About

Charles Torres is a Vice Chair of our Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Group, and a Practice Group Leader for our Latin American Venture Capital Group.  He is a trusted advisor to emerging growth companies, their founders, investors and directors.  As outside general counsel, he works with a diverse range of US and international companies, but particularly those focused on Artificial Intelligence, consumer, media and gaming, financial services, enterprise software and healthcare. 

Charles regularly counsels leading venture capital funds, corporate VCs and family offices with respect to their portfolio investments and dispositions.

He brings a wealth of experience in the New York venture community, as counsel to dozens of exited founders and venture investors and as a long-time passionate contributor to the ecosystem.

Bar admissionsNew York
Education
  • J.D., University of Chicago
  • B.A., Politics, New York University

Awards

Chambers USA

  • Band 5, Nationwide Startups & Emerging Companies (2023-2024) 

The Legal 500 United States

  • Recommended, Venture Capital & Emerging Companies (2021-2024) 

Seminars

Teaching Experience

Charles currently is a lecturer at both Columbia Business School and Cornell Tech, and is the co-founder of the Startup Law Studio at Columbia Business School. 

Memberships And Affiliations

Charles is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the founder (and former chair) of its Emerging Companies Committee.

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