Corporate Finance

Whether you want to expand operations or simply sustain them, we can take legal measures to help protect your business—efficiently and cost-effectively. From subscription agreements to large public offerings, our lawyers have diverse and sophisticated experience in handling corporate, finance and securities matters.  We represent public and private companies, general and limited partnerships, banks, broker-dealers, and other business entities, in a broad range of capital markets transactions.

With lawyers who are nationally recognized for their corporate work, we'll help you take the next step with confidence.

Services

• Securities registration: Represent issuers in the registration process, respond to comments from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and interact with SEC staff.
• Stock exchange procedures: Prepare listing applications for the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, and trading applications for NASDAQ.
• Financial agreements: Prepare and negotiate underwriting agreements (domestic and international), selling shareholder agreements, etc.
• Mergers & acquisitions: Negotiate and prepare merger agreements, stock purchase agreements and asset purchase agreements. Advise clients on all aspects of the merger and acquisition process, including related securities, taxation and accounting issues.
• Venture capital documents: Prepare documents such as debt and equity purchase agreements, convertible debt and equity instruments and equity rights agreements.
• Documents for registration/funding: Prepare registration statements, prospectuses, private placement memoranda, blue sky memoranda and other documents.
• SEC filings: Prepare annual and periodic reports for the SEC, including Form 10-K Annual Reports, Form 10-Q Quarterly Reports, Form 8-K Current Reports, Schedule 13D Acquisition Statements, Section 16 reports (for controlling shareholders, directors and officers), Schedule 14D Tender Offer Statements and Form 8-A Registration Statements (for registration of certain classes of securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
• Compliance: Guide clients on relevant compliance issues, including SEC disclosure requirements and insider trading regulations; assist clients’ insiders in complying with their Section 16 reporting obligations Forms 3, 4 and 5).
• Shareholder relations: Assist executive officers with shareholder meetings, shareholder communications and relations.
• Benefit plans: Prepare stock option plans, employee stock ownership and other benefit plans.
• Compensation issues: Advise management on compensation agreements, severance agreements and arrangements with executive officers.