Focus

The Corporate Practice Group represents business organizations ranging from entrepreneurial operated mid-sized companies to large national and global companies.  Our lawyers provide day-to-day general counseling to help clients understand and solve complex legal, tax and business issues at every stage of representation. 

Overview

Our attorneys understand the need for responsive counseling, quality representation and practical solutions to legal, tax, and business concerns.  Our ability to effectively manage the legal concerns that arise in any business depends upon our adherence to providing timely, focused and effective solutions.  We strive to understand your business and risk thresholds so that we can be an active participant in satisfying your legal needs and, when possible, anticipate those needs as part of our role as legal counselor.

Complex Business Transactions
Complex business transactions, acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, and joint ventures require counsel that can readily combine the unique mix of corporate structuring, tax planning, negotiation and documentation for the matter. Our lawyers are experienced in finding that combination and offering a practical approach to address the challenges that can occur during the process.  Our transaction experience crosses multiple industries and multiple jurisdictions.  Our attorneys are experienced in distressed transaction settings.  We offer diligent representation during every stage of the transaction.

Securities Offerings and Investment Services
The offering of debt or equity interests in an entity usually triggers an obligation to make disclosures to investors.  These fundraising transactions require fine balancing judgments regarding what facts need to be disclosed in the offering materials in order to provide protections for offering sponsors.  Our extensive experience in both the public and private arenas supports these fine judgments.  We counsel public companies in navigating the complex regulatory framework involved in public offerings.  We also advise privately-held companies, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, real estate funds and other private funds in structuring their relationships with investors and business partners, and prepare compliant disclosure documents for the offerings.  In addition to advising on securities offerings, we assist investment advisers with registration and other regulatory compliance matters.

Business Formation and Strategic Planning
When it comes to business formation and strategic planning, our goal is to serve as counselors to our clients by providing legal advice that helps focus and facilitate the business decisions that are being made.  We want to understand your business and the relationships that affect it so that our advice is meaningful and complete.  Whether your question involves relationships with third parties, such as customers or vendors, the preparation of employment agreements, the protection of intellectual property, or any number of day-to-day issues, we are skilled in providing the necessary guidance.

Services

• Mergers & acquisitions
• Distressed M&A 
• Joint ventures
• Venture capital
• Organizational governance

Securities Offerings and Investment Services

• Registered public offerings
• SEC compliance
• Hedge fund and other private fund structurings and offerings
• Real estate syndications
• Investment adviser compliance

Business Formation and Strategic Planning

• Corporate partnering and licensing
• Manufacturing and distribution agreements
• Intellectual property protection
• Employment and confidentiality agreements

Specialty Services

• Sophisticated tax planning
• 1031 exchange transactions
• Non-consolidation opinions
• Succession and estate plannings