No matter the trajectory your business follows, we provide the legal services to help you realize opportunities at each phase of your business. Our corporate attorneys focus on ways to build and protect investments in your people, operations and brand by managing a variety of complex legal, transactional and regulatory issues involved in starting, expanding and managing your enterprise. We serve clients, ranging from major international corporations to entrepreneurial start-ups.
We take complex deals from negotiation to completion and handle the due diligence and documentation necessary to ensure you are making the best business investments.
We are here to support and protect your business interests every step of the way.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Our team has extensive experience in stock and asset purchases, mergers, divestitures, reorganizations and other financial transactions for purchasers and targets of all kinds, including institutional and entrepreneurial clients, public and private corporations and investment groups.
Our attorneys help clients structure transactions to maximize corporate and partnership tax provisions related to entity formation, pricing, complex contracts, and indemnities.
Corporate Finance and Securities
Our firm has a nationwide financing practice that excels at developing and implementing sophisticated financing structures. Commercial loan transactions include credit lines, bridge loans, secured and asset-based loans, structured financing and securitizations, equity finance and public finance. We have extensive experience in state and federal securities law and represent clients and numerous other issuers, underwriters and venture capital investors in securities transactions including:
- Public and private offerings of debt and equity securities
- Debentures and preferred stock financing transactions for seed capital
- Angel financing
- Private placements
- Venture capital and initial and secondary public offerings
This area of practice also includes compliance with federal securities laws and regulations affecting the issuance of securities, as well as regulatory compliance.
Corporate Formation and Governance
Our attorneys have particular strength and experience in structuring a variety of operational entities and develop specific corporate and tax structures aligned with client business strategy. We assist with designing a broad array of corporate entities from start-up ventures to international mergers and acquisitions, complex joint ventures and tax exempt organizations. We then help business owners stay compliant with the fiduciary and oversight duties of public and private entities, such as:
- Board of Directors composition and compliance
- Conflicts of interest
- Executive compensation disclosure requirements
- SEC disclosure regulatory compliance and investigations
- Financial reporting
- Document retention
- Ethics codes
Taxation
The firm's tax attorneys provide counseling in the full range of federal, state and local tax issues that vitally impact business operations. We have the experience to evaluate complex transactions and apply the latest laws and regulations toward obtaining tax benefits and incentives, while reducing tax exposure. We manage tax disputes before state and local administrative agencies, the Internal Revenue Service, state tax or superior court, the courts of appeals and the Supreme Court. Tax services include:
- Corporate and individual income tax
- Multistate sales and use tax
- Property tax
- Audits and appeals
- Tax controversy and litigation
International Business
We help clients successfully navigate the many legal, logistical, regulatory and operational considerations involved in conducting successful trade and international business, offering legal support related to:
- Structuring and forming businesses
- Cross-border transactions
- Operational and import/export issues
- Foreign tax credits
- Tariffs and duties
- Offshore investment
- International arbitration and mediation