Why do we do deals?
We don’t do deals because we think it’s cool to do them; we do deals to help your business prosper. Business strategy drives how we work on corporate law and business transactions. We structure and facilitate deals and agreements with a clear understanding of how they impact your business activities and goals.
We have solutions for emerging companies and startups, whether pre-funding or funded by friends and family, angels, venture capital, or bootstrapped. We solve problems for established companies, whether private or public.
Corporate Law
Our services in corporate law, securities law, and general corporate matters include:
- Company maintenance – corporations, non-profits, LLCs, partnerships
- Company structure – holding companies, subsidiaries, converting entity type
- Equity ownership and stock option plans
- Founders’ agreements, consulting agreements, buy/sell agreements
- Financing transactions with friends and family, angels, venture capitalists, private equity and hedge funds, and other institutional investors
- Secondary market transactions of private company stock
- Private placements – Regulation D, private placement memorandums, state Blue Sky laws
- Accredited investor information and subscription agreements
- Investment fund regulation and governance – hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds
- Periodic reporting for public companies – 8-K, 10-Q, 10-K
- SEC compliance for public companies – 1933 and 1934 Acts, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Dodd-Frank, Regulation FD, proxy statements
- Help public companies address regulatory and compliance issues when acquiring private companies
- Board of directors and executives – advice for individual directors and executives
- See our Corporate Governance services
Business Transactions
We also help you with business transactions from formation to exit, including:
- Entity formation and the startup stage – incorporation, LLC formation, partnerships
- Equity financing – including angel and venture capital investments
- Mergers and acquisitions – due diligence, with an emphasis on governance risk and compliance issues, deal negotiations, transaction structure, and post-deal integration
- Prepare private companies for initial public offerings (IPOs), including SOX, Dodd-Frank, and stock exchange requirements
- Investments in companies and funds, such as hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds
- Assist investors who want to invest capital in other countries, whether foreign investors in the US market or US investors in foreign markets
- Debt financing – including venture debt and commercial debt
- Contracts and agreements (e.g., buy-sell agreements)
- Joint ventures and strategic partnerships
- Intellectual property transactions – licenses, purchases, assignments
- Sales and divestitures
- Dissolving the entity
