Corporate Securities
Our firm’s corporate securities practice is built upon the years of experience our attorneys have in guiding public and private companies as both outside and in-house counsel.
Public Issuers
We advise publicly-traded companies on SEC reporting, securities offerings, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate governance, initial public offerings, private placements, PIPEs, proxy solicitations, mergers, acquisitions, going-private, spin-offs, hostile takeovers, employee stock option plans, Rule 144 opinions and related regulatory issues. Some representative transactions in which our attorneys have advised clients include:
- $550,000,000 initial public offering by ethanol producer
- $475,000,000 merger of two public companies in the lighting industry
- $135,000,000 merger between two public companies in the hosted applications industry
- $5,000,000 acquisition of privately held wireless device company by our publicly traded client using restricted stock as currency; structured as a reverse triangular merger
- Representation of publicly traded specialty chemical company in $60,000,000 acquisition of private competitor
- Representation of publicly traded lighting company in $10,000,000 acquisition of synergistic product line
- $30,000,000 merger of publicly traded specialty chemical company with privately held retail chemical manufacturer
- $100,000,000 sale of insulation division of publicly traded manufacturing conglomerate
- Representation of publicly traded manufacturing conglomerate in several acquisitions of privately held businesses in Canada and Europe
Private Issuers
Our growing private company issuers and private institutional investment clients also rely on us for structuring and documenting private placements, including angel and seed round investments, convertible note and preferred stock transactions, mezzanine financing, late-stage equity investments, and strategic advice surrounding capital formation and exit strategies.
Some representative transactions in which our attorneys have advised clients include:
- Private sale of medical specialty distributor business
- $7,000,000 aggregate private equity issuances for national consumer data business
- $4,000,000 venture capital preferred stock issuance for VoIP telecommunications company
- $1,600,000 private equity issuance for offshore medical school
- $4,000,000 acquisition of the assets of a publicly traded electronic bill presentment and payment business
