Corporate

Our Public Company, Securities and Governance attorneys represent U.S. public companies across a broad spectrum of market capitalizations, industries and ownership structures.  Our team serves as trusted advisors to senior management and Boards on compliance matters (including Exchange Act and securities exchange reporting), a range of public and private capital markets offerings, governance and key policies, executive and director compensation, shareholder outreach and activism, and investor relations.  We are recognized for our responsiveness, problem solving and depth of expertise.  We are actively involved in core, ordinary course financial, operational, commercial and strategic planning matters, as well as extraordinary transactions, such as proxy contests, takeover defense and mergers and acquisitions.  The team also has significant expertise representing underwriters, pre-IPO or voluntary SEC filers, and private companies seeking to implement governance, compensation and compliance practices of publicly companies.  Learn more.

Our Finance group works with clients to fund growth, including growth via acquisition, to reorganize their capital structures and to achieve economic efficiencies. Attorneys within the group have extensive experience in structuring and executing a wide range of public and private financing transactions that extend across diverse industries and achieve a breadth of objectives. Our finance lawyers are often called upon to structure hybrid transactions involving multiple asset classes and a syndicate of capital providers, each with differing interests. Learn more.

Our Technology Transactions and Data Privacy, Privacy and Cybersecurity groups, in addition to teaming with our M&A and Private Equity attorneys in transactions involving technology and data issues, focuses on the intersection of law and technology and on understanding, protecting and managing intellectual property, information, and data assets (including in compliance with privacy and information security laws and regulations). These groups partner with our clients to identify, acquire, and monetize IT and IP assets, regularly advising on licensing and cloud services agreements, and the proper management and protection of business-critical information, data, and intellectual property in a rapidly changing environment. Attorneys within these groups are critical members of an interdisciplinary firm team made up of corporate, IP and litigation attorneys with vast experience in virtually every industry, including automotive, financial services, healthcare, retail, e-commerce, life sciences, manufacturing, media and entertainment, and more. Learn more.

Our Tax group works closely with our Corporate department, particularly the Private Equity and M&A groups, on structuring and negotiating domestic and cross-border merger, acquisition, financing, and other transactions. Our Tax attorneys are experienced in negotiating both taxable and tax-free transactions involving public and private and strategic and financial acquirers and targets. Our Tax group also works extensively with our Real Estate department on a wide variety of complex matters, including choice of entity, publicly traded and private REITs, Tax credit and Opportunity Zone investments, and tax-free like-kind exchanges. Members of our Tax group have expertise on federal income tax matters, as well as state and local tax matters. Our Tax group prides itself on finding creative, yet practical, solutions to tax issues that arise in business, investment, and personal contexts. Learn more.

Our Venture Capital group represents clients involved in all aspects of financing, operation, and sale of technology-based companies in the U.S. and other parts of the world. Our technology-based clients cover a broad range of industries from software to drug therapies. We represent both investors and their portfolio companies throughout the life span of growth, ranging from seed capital to growth equity for later-stage enterprises. Investor clients include institutional venture capital funds, strategic investors, venture capital fund-of-funds, and angel investors. Our Venture Capital group is especially active in the life sciences and medical device sectors. Learn more.

Our Restructuring and Insolvency group has vast experience in all forms of restructuring transactions and insolvency proceedings, and represents a varied and diverse set of clients in distressed situations, including debtors, boards of directors, investors, lenders and other creditors, creditor committees, and customers. The group also works with potential acquirers interested in acquiring distressed companies or assets. Learn more.

Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation group helps clients of various sizes, from large public companies to non-profits, in the design, operation, and legal aspects of their employee benefits and executive compensation arrangements. The group has extensive experience in tailoring plans and arrangements to facilitate specific company objectives. The group also handles a wide variety of contested matters, including defending plan sponsors and fiduciaries in proceedings involving benefit claims and alleged fiduciary breaches. Learn more.