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Practice

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Our Focus

  • Provide value-added legal services to growth business enterprises and capital providers, at all stages of development, on a time-sensitive, cost-effective basis.
  • Represent publicly-traded and privately-held global enterprises as well as venture-backed start-up companies.
  • Focus on serving the principal challenges faced by executive management and board of directors of business enterprises.
  • Act as a strategic business partner to diversified client base.
  • Practice onsite at client in a general counsel role, or offsite in a transactional/project capacity.

Our Track Record

  • Advise public enterprises on issues of corporate law, securities, and corporate governance.
  • Represent companies in mergers and acquisitions.
  • Advise companies on initial public offerings.
  • Represent companies that receive venture financing.
  • Actively represent public and private companies.
  • Regularly advise on state and federal securities laws, stock exchange regulations, and general corporate law.

Corporate Governance Practice

  • Experienced in all aspects of governance counseling, including board and board committee compositions, process, and independence.
  • Draw on corporate securities, governance, litigation, and compensation expertise to provide clients with information and analysis needed to respond to a rapidly changing regulatory landscape.
  • On the leading edge of new regulations driven by the needs for increased transparency, responsibility, and accountability.

Corporate Finance Expertise

Extensive experience in structuring a wide variety of transactions, including:

  • Venture financings
  • Private equity
  • Private placements (144A, Regulation S, and PIPEs)
  • Public equity
  • Acquisition financings
  • Public note issuances
  • Syndicated and single-bank credit lines
  • Structured finance
  • Off-balance sheet financings and capital leases
  • Factoring, asset-based, mezzanine, and other debt/quasi-debt capital vehicles

M&A Expertise

  • Advise on the full range of M&A transactions including domestic and foreign growth business enterprises at all stages of development.
  • Experience counseling clients in a wide range of negotiated and contested transactions, including:
    • Mergers
    • Asset purchases
    • Spin-offs
    • Exchange offers
    • Tender offers
    • Proxy contests
    • Going private transactions
    • Leveraged buy-outs

Growth Transactions and Corporate Counseling

  • Strategic alliances
  • Joint ventures
  • Co-development agreements
  • Manufacturing, supply, and distribution agreements
  • Strategic technology acquisitions
  • License transactions
  • Employment law, benefits, and compensation
  • Risk management
  • Litigation management

Intellectual Property Counsel

  • Counseling on total IP management (patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets)
  • Preparation and prosecution oversight
  • Offensive IP strategies
  • Defensive IP strategies
  • Due diligence in financing and acquisition transactions