Erin Medina

Erin Medina is the Founder and Managing Partner of Stark, a national business and transactional law firm advising venture capital funds, family offices, emerging and venture-backed companies, private credit and private equity sponsors, financial institutions, lenders, and investors. With more than 26 years of experience, Erin serves as trusted counsel on sophisticated transactions and strategic legal matters across the United States. Erin’s practice is centered on venture and growth-stage financings and private credit transactions, including seed and Series A financings, SAFEs and convertible notes, asset-based lending, structured credit, syndicated and bilateral facilities, and real estate finance. She regularly represents venture funds, sponsors, lenders, borrowers, and emerging companies in the origination, structuring, negotiation, documentation, and closing of complex financing transactions, and continues to support clients throughout the life of the investment. In addition, Erin has extensive experience advising emerging companies, family offices, multi-generational investment platforms and investors on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and corporate finance matters. She counsels buyers and sellers on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, and strategic investments across a wide range of industries. Her practice also includes special situation matters, including workouts, enforcement actions, debt restructuring, bankruptcies, distressed asset strategies, special master and receiverships—experience that is particularly valuable to venture and private equity sponsors navigating portfolio challenges. Beyond individual transactions, Erin serves as outside and fractional general counsel to emerging companies, family offices, operating businesses, and investment platforms. She serves on multiple boards at Southern Methodist University, including the Dedman College Executive Board and Texas-Mexico Center Board.