Since the firm’s founding over one hundred years ago business and corporate law has remained at the core of our practice. We represent individuals and businesses – ranging from small start-ups to mature family-owned and other closely-held businesses to large public companies. Our clients look to us as trusted advisors for counsel and assistance with evaluation, structuring and negotiation of a wide range of business transactions, as well as advice on day-to-day issues and operational matters.
More specifically, our expertise includes business formation; joint ventures and strategic alliances; stockholder relations; ownership and management succession; employee benefits and executive compensation; mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and recapitalizations; securities regulation (including investment company, investment adviser and broker-dealer registration and compliance); private equity fund formation and administration; venture capital; public and quasi-public financings; commercial and other business contracts; commercial lending and loan syndication; financial institution acquisitions, divestitures and regulation; development of financial products and services; creditors’ rights, workouts, restructurings and bankruptcy; federal, state and international tax planning and litigation; international legal matters; technology licensing; antitrust and trade regulation matters; and non-profit organizational matters and financings.
Our clients are engaged in a broad spectrum of businesses, including manufacturing, distribution, retail, health care products and services, energy and utilities, financial services (banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, investment companies and investment advisers), software development, communications, restaurants and food processing, construction, real estate development and service sectors. As a part of the client’s team, we work closely with firm attorneys from other practice areas and the client’s other professional advisors to meet the client’s schedule and objectives.