Corporate Finance and Securities

Overview

Our corporate finance and securities attorneys handle complex finance and securities transactions and compliance matters for public and private companies. Our in-depth and up-to-date knowledge of securities law developments, our experience with the capital markets and our familiarity with companies like yours will help you make intelligent financing decisions and increase the likelihood that your deal will close. In the compliance area, we can assist you in making difficult judgments about disclosure and other issues, and help you anticipate and address pending changes in the regulatory landscape.

Experience

We regularly counsel clients regarding:

Private placements (equity and debt)
Initial public offerings
Secondary public offerings (equity and debt)
Secondary sales of privately held securities
Bridge loan transactions
Venture investments and financings
Going private transactions
'34 Act reporting, including 10-Ks, 10-Qs and 8-Ks and proxy statements
Fiduciary duties of directors and officers
Insider trading and Rule 10b5-1 trading plans
Regulatory compliance

Clients and Industries

We represent a broad array of corporate clients, from individual entrepreneurs and start-up companies to Fortune 500 companies, as well as boards of directors, board committees and investors.

Selected Case Results*

Notable representative transactions include:

Equity and debt offerings, and private placements for Best Buy
Initial public offering for Golf Galaxy
Equity investment in a medical device company for Medtronic
Sales of preferred stock for MR Instruments
Initial public offering for Choicetel Communications
Sales of preferred stock and bridge financings for SimonDelivers

*Past results are reported to provide the reader with an indication of the type of transactions we practice. They do not and should not be construed to create an expectation of result in any other transaction, as all transactions are dependent upon their own unique fact situation and applicable law.