Corporate Finance and Securities
Our Corporate Finance and Securities lawyers regularly handle sophisticated finance and securities transactions for private and public companies. We are driven by our client's business goal. One of our most important roles is to develop legal alternatives and to weigh the risks and benefits of those alternatives in order to find a solution that best fits the desired business goal, be it a sensitive disclosure issue or understanding the ramifications of various financing alternatives. We are focused on solving problems and delivering solutions.
Whom We Represent
Our Experience
Corporate Finance Transaction
Advisory Services
Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC rules enacted pursuant to the Act
Fiduciary duties of directors and officers and corporate governance for private and public companies
Anti-takeover preparedness and counseling, including shareholder rights plans or "poison pills"
Insider Trading and Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans
Section 16 Compliance
Periodic reports - 10-Ks, 10-Qs and 8-Ks
Proxy statements, shareholder proposals and shareholder meeting counseling
Stock options and executive compensation
Compliance with the rules of the NASD, The Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange
Shareholder proposals and meetings
Periodic reporting with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Industries We Have Served
Biotechnology
Manufacturing
Publishing
Retail
Software
Technology
Telecommunications
Transportation
Selected Results*
Golf Galaxy - completed its initial public offering.
Peoples Educational Holdings, Inc. - completed a secondary public offering.
Best Buy Co., Inc. sale of $405,500,000 principal amount of convertible debentures.
Crescendo Ventures led groups of investors in 26 separate financings of an aggregate of $214 million of preferred stock and bridge loans with 21 different issuers.
SimonDelivers.com completed several rounds of private equity financings.
Best Buy Co., Inc. sale of convertible debentures having $492,400,000 initial aggregate principal amount of maturity.
Applied Epi, Inc. filed for an IPO.
Best Buy Co., Inc. completed a Series B round of financing in a private service provider.
RiverVest Ventures led a group of investors in $20 million investment in medical device company.
MR Instruments sold $8 million of preferred stock and accepted $3.5 million of bridge financing.
Sherwood Information Partners sold $1.2 million of preferred stock and accepted $2 million of bridge financing.
XBux sold $3.5 million of preferred stock.
A national women's apparel retailer completed a $10 million public offering of senior debt.
A manufacturer of water purification products completed a $45 million follow-on public offering.
A consolidator of independent pay telephone providers completed a private placement of equity, an initial public offering and three roll-up acquisitions.
Business Practices > Corporate Finance and Securities