Tyler Rauert

Tyler is a member of Fortis’ corporate team. He has a deep expertise in complex corporate and transactional matters for emerging growth and established companies with an emphasis on M&A, entity formation and funding, international business transactions, SaaS, data privacy, and intellectual property. Tyler has independently guided numerous clients through all phases of their M&A transactions, from initial negotiation through close and post-acquisition integration.

Before joining Fortis, Tyler served as VP of Legal at Pax 8, a global cloud software marketplace, where he led the company’s legal function. During his tenure as the company’s principal legal advisor, he was responsible for its various transactional and compliance needs, led acquisitions in North America, Europe, and Asia, and managed its Series F and G funding rounds. 

Prior to Pax 8, Tyler was in-house counsel at a Colorado-based Berkshire Hathaway company, where he worked on large, complex US and international transactions and contributed substantially to the company’s global data privacy posture. Tyler also spent several years in private practice leading corporate, transactional, and brand protection teams for Denver-area law firms, including serving as the lead marketing and brand protection attorney for Chipotle Mexican Grill.  

Earlier in his career, Tyler worked for the US Department of Defense in Washington, D.C., where he worked on matters of national security and international law as well as the security of components of international trade with senior national security, foreign affairs, and customs officials from Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. During this decade in the nation’s capital, he served as a National Security Fellow for a Senator from Illinois. In that role, he developed legislation on export controls, Iran sanctions, terrorism-related detentions, corporate responsibility for human rights violations, and security assistance reform.