Team
Experience that understands the transaction.
Meet the people behind Stoneledge Capital and the experience they bring to evaluating businesses, structuring transactions, and navigating ownership transitions.
José M. Padilla
His career has involved negotiating for large corporations as well as representing individuals facing consequential personal decisions. That range informs his practical approach to complex transactions and competing stakeholder interests.
José M. Padilla brings a broad corporate and transactional background to Stoneledge Capital. As founder and principal of Padilla Law PLLC, he represents technology and growth companies, investors, and venture capital funds in mergers and acquisitions, financings, and general corporate and securities matters. His experience also includes healthcare and gaming regulation.
José has worked at national law firms, billion-dollar companies, and early-stage businesses.
He previously taught gaming law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and health law at New York University. He earned his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and he is admitted to practice in Texas.
The son of immigrants and the first in his family to finish high school, José brings a lasting curiosity about people and ideas. He has traveled to more than 65 countries, met his wife in Siberia, and danced salsa on six continents. In addition to English, he has varying degrees of fluency in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Russian.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D.