Our lawyers have successfully undertaken and completed thousands of transactions and matters related to dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration, designed to achieve the goals and meet the needs of companies, financial institutions, investors, directors, and executives.  We also have provided advice and counsel with respect to a myriad of non-transactional corporate and business matters.

Mergers and acquisitions:
• Representation of acquirers, acquirees, investment banks, lenders, investors, and boards of directors
• Public-public, public-private, and private-private transactions
• Merger transactions
• Stock transactions
• Asset transactions
• Cash transactions
• Leveraged transactions
• Earn-outs
• Reverse mergers
• Going-private transactions

Private equity and venture capital; alternative investments:
• Private placements of securities/issuer-side representation
• Investor representation
• Representation of brokers, dealers, and finders
• Angel financings
• Venture capital and private equity transactions
• Seed, series “A” rounds and beyond, expansion-stage financing
• PIPE transactions
• Venture and hedge fund formation

Debt transactions and credit facilities:
• Debtor and creditor representation
• Secured transactions
• Unsecured transactions
• Letters of credit

Restructurings and workouts; recapitalizations:
• Structure, negotiate, and document restructurings
• Entity conversions
• Recapitalizations
• Stock buy-back programs

Technology contracting:
• Licensing, representing licensors and licensees
• IT consulting and professional services agreements
• Outsourcing arrangements
• Technology assignments and other transfers
• Distribution and reseller agreements and other arrangements involving other alternative channels of distribution
• Collaborative research and development agreements
• Joint ventures and technology partnerships and consortia
• Web site terms and conditions, privacy policies, open-source licensing advice
• Web and application hosting agreements
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Material transfer agreements

Public offerings:
• Initial public offerings, issuer and underwriter representation
• Follow-on and secondary offerings
• Equity and debt offerings

Securities law compliance:
• Periodic disclosure obligations (annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports, press releases)
• Proxy statements, including merger proxies and those involving contests for control and going private transactions

Real estate:
• Commercial leasing transactions
• Development
• Finance

Dispute resolution:
• Litigation
• Arbitration
• Counseling
• Corporate and financial transactions
• Business torts
• Intellectual property
• Fiduciary duty litigation
• Contractual disputes
• Securities law matters

General corporate counseling:
• Board representation and advice
• Corporate governance
• Closely-held and family owned businesses
• Entity formation – choice of entity advice, corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs)
• Agreements among shareholders, members, and partners
• Employment, separation, and severance arrangements
• Consulting arrangements
• Commercial contracting, including manufacturing, purchase and supply agreements
• Business separation and divorce
• Pre-litigation dispute resolution