---
alias:
- Hambro Venture Capital
- Hambro International
- Hambro
category: Private Organization
created: 2026-09-22
location: Boston, Massachusetts
summary: Boston venture firm that invested about 400,000 dollars in INSLAW in 1983
  as lead investor, placing its partner Richard D'Amore on the board, and that Bill
  Hamilton said joined 53rd Street Ventures in threatening to withhold financing unless
  he ceded voting control.
tags:
- Organization
- Hambro
- PROMIS
- INSLAW
- VentureCapital
- Boston
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Hambro International Equity Partners, a Boston venture capital company "in the business of investing in existing businesses," invested approximately 400,000 dollars in [INSLAW](/organizations/inslaw/) in 1983. As lead investor it placed its partner [Richard D'Amore](/people/richard-damore/) on the company's board of directors, and in 1984 its Ed Goodman asked [Daniel Tessler](/people/daniel-tessler/) of Tessler and Cloherty, who had that year taken over management of the [53rd Street Ventures](/organizations/53rd-street-ventures/) fund with its smaller INSLAW stake, to meet [Bill Hamilton](/people/bill-hamilton/) about INSLAW's cash-flow problems.[^1]

Hamilton's affidavit in the INSLAW litigation alleged that in December 1984 Tessler threatened that neither 53rd Street Ventures nor Hambro would help the company raise capital unless the Hamiltons surrendered voting control of their stock, and that [Patricia Cloherty](/people/patricia-cloherty/) had said she "knew all about" [Earl Brian](/people/earl-brian/)'s role in the company's troubles. D'Amore told the investigators of the special counsel [Nicholas J. Bua](/people/nicholas-j-bua/) that he had never heard Cloherty say any such thing and knew of no role played by Brian; Tessler and Cloherty denied the ultimatum, and Bua found the allegation not credible. INSLAW entered Chapter 11 in February 1985. The vault's pages refer to the firm as Hambro Venture Capital and as Hambro International Equity Partners; the special counsel's report uses the latter name and the shorter "Hambro International."[^1]

[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, interviews of Richard D'Amore and Daniel Tessler. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport The firm's relation to Hambros Bank of London, founded 1839 and sold to Société Générale in 1998, is as given in reference summaries and was not verified against a primary record.