Our representation is broad-based and includes small, start-up enterprises as well as publicly traded companies in a full range of financing activities. In addition to debt financing from individual and institutional lenders and the use of owner and employee-based financing (for example, through the use of tax-favored Employee Stock Ownership Plans), we represent clients in the private placement of debt and equity securities.
We represent issuers in public and private offerings of both debt and equity securities. Such offerings fund corporations, limited liability companies and, limited partnerships, and include both initial offerings and secondary offerings. Our attorneys counsel clients as to the impact of securities law on joint venture and lease financings, corporate reorganizations, recapitalizations and restructuring, and the use of less traditional securities, such as asset-backed securities.
Our M&A Practice Group includes securities attorneys who counsel and represent clients in all areas of regulatory compliance, including securities registration, Regulation D offerings, NASD fairness reviews, listings with Nasdaq and US securities exchanges, registrations under the state securities or "Blue Sky" laws, and SEC compliance.
We provide strategic counseling and assist clients in:
- Corporate governance and fiduciary matters
- Implementation of stock-based compensation plans
- Securities disclosure and related issues
- Critical disclosures in contested transactions
- Consent solicitations
- Filing of proxy statements
- Proxy contests
- Tender offers
- Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
- Audit compensation and special committee representations