Marisa C. Terrenzi

Marisa Terrenzi is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Tysons office and practices principally in the areas of business and corporate law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and general corporate matters. Her clients are engaged in a variety of industry sectors, including government contracts, information technology software services and publishing. She has represented a number of leading venture capital and private equity firms in numerous transactions as well as a wide range of early-stage and later-stage companies.

In addition to private practice, Ms. Terrenzi has served as in-house counsel for local venture-backed technology companies, including serving as assistant counsel for comScore Inc.

Clients often praise Ms. Terrenzi's work, saying:

Marisa is an outstanding deal lawyer. She is highly responsive, commercial and creative. She knows how to get deals done and navigate highly complex issues.

– Chambers USA – America's Leading Lawyers for Business guide, 2024

Marisa provides outstanding counsel. Her broad experience, creativity and calm demeanor cut through complex and sometimes emotional matters, allowing us to get the right deals done the right way. She is consistently the first name we think of when we're choosing our team on important deals.

– Current Client Testimonial, 2024

Some of the transactions in which Ms. Terrenzi has served as counsel include:

• Macquarie Capital's acquisitions of Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Procentrix and The Dovel Group (and Dovel's acquisition of Ace Info Solutions LLC )
• Leidos Holdings' acquisitions of Gibbs & Cox and the 1901 Group
• WSP's acquisition of AKF Group LLC
• Private equity-backed Polaris Alpha Group LLC's acquisitions of Fourth Dimension Engineering LLC, Intelesys Corp., Intelligent Software Solutions LLC and EOIR Technologies Inc.
• Private equity-backed Integrity Applications (IAI) LLC's acquisitions of IAI LLC, Dependable Global Solutions LLC and Xebec Global Corp.
• Cubic Corp.'s acquisitions of MotionDSP Inc., GATR Technologies Inc. TeraLogics LLC, Pixia and Nuvotronics
• CSRA's acquisitions of Praxis Engineering Technologies LLC and NES Associates LLC
• The Cadmus Group LLC's acquisitions of IFOK GmbH and Obsidian Analysis Inc.
• Penguin Random House's acquisition of Eric Carle LLC
• Multiple divestitures including the sale of Louis Berger Services Inc. (subsidiary of WSP) to Versar Inc., Smashing Ideas LLC (subsidiary of Penguin Random House) to Luxoft USA Inc., the sale of Cubic Global Defense Inc. (subsidiary of Cubic Corp.) to Valiant Integrated Services Inc., sale of comScore's Digital Analytix business to Adobe Systems Inc.
• Multiple sell-side transactions, including Ridgeline's sale to Enlightenment Capital, Centauri LLC's sale to KBR Inc., Polaris Alpha Group's sale to Parsons Government Services Inc., Information International Associates Inc.'s sale to Lee Equity Partners, DataSync Technologies Inc.'s sale to Clear Creek Group Inc., Project Performance Co. LLC's sale to Data Systems Analysts Inc., Learning Objects LLC's sale to Cengage Learning Inc. and TransForce Inc.'s sale to Palladium Equity Partners LLC