Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  We have substantial experience in representing audit committees, compensation committees, and governance committees in corporate governance and compliance matters. We regularly advise special board committees and individual directors in connection with related party transactions, restructurings, recapitalizations, downrounds, and other unique situations.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  We have decades of experience in guiding both buy-side and sell-side clients with mergers and acquisitions (M&A), stock and asset transactions, insider buyouts, divestitures, spin-offs, going-private transactions, and corporate reorganizations. We’re often involved at the beginning of a potential transaction, offering guidance on planning and structure, due diligence, employment transition matters, whether and how to retain investment banking professionals, and negotiating terms sheets and letters of intent. We have represented companies in structuring and negotiating some of the largest merger and acquisition exits during the past several decades, including sales to both publicly held strategic acquirors as well as nationally known private equity firms. Our transactional work spans all business segments, including software, telecommunications, ad-tech, social media, professional services, healthcare services, consumer, footwear, retail, technology, manufacturing, semiconductor, medical device, food, energy, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and finance.
• Business Disputes
  The traditional law firm approach can be challenging, expensive and ineffective for innovative companies. That’s why we’re committed to putting clients first and taking the time actually to listen and understand.
• Limited Liability Companies
  We have extensive experience in designing and implementing lifetime wealth transfer programs, including structures for making gifts to minors, education trusts, section 529 college savings programs, generation-skipping trusts (GST or Dynasty Trusts), irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs) and other trusts for residences, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and grantor retained income trusts (GRITs), domestic asset protection trusts, family limited partnerships (FLPs), family limited liability companies and intrafamily sales. We advise on gift, generation-skipping transfer, and other tax issues.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  We advise companies and board compensation committees on best practices and alternatives for structuring compensation packages that attract and retain executive talent, encourage commitment and reward results. We craft employment agreements and also work to design equity instruments (incentive and non-statutory stock options, RSUs, phantom stock and more) with tailored features, vesting schedules, acceleration triggers, contractual restrictions and other provisions to align employees’ and employers’ incentive and retention goals and performance objectives.We also represent accomplished individuals and executives on executive employment issues, including retention and separation agreements, change in control, equity-based compensation programs, and annual and long term incentive plans.
• Employment Litigation

Finance Law

• Tax Law