Securities

A number of the firm's clients are publicly traded corporations. Our securities attorneys regularly assist these clients, and their directors and officers, in meeting their ongoing reporting, disclosure and corporate governance obligations under federal and state securities laws and regulations, national stock exchange and quotation system listing requirements and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, including the preparation of periodic reports, proxy materials and related disclosures under the Securities Act of 1934.

Our securities attorneys also have extensive experience in representing issuers, underwriters and selling stockholders in connection with public offerings of debt and equity securities under the Securities Act of 1933.

Our securities attorneys regularly advise closely-held businesses in need of debt and equity financing in connection with structuring and completing capital raising transactions that are exempt from federal and state registration requirements. We also have extensive experience negotiating financing transactions with venture capitalists and other institutional financing sources.

We advise both sellers and buyers in all kinds of merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, ranging from the purchase and sale of small family-owned businesses to mergers of large publicly-owned companies, both domestic and foreign. The firm has extensive experience in assisting sellers and buyers in their tax planning and in guiding clients through the potential antitrust consequences of these transactions.

Our securities attorneys represent broker-dealers, investment advisers and private investment companies and their principals in the highly-regulated fields in which they operate, and we assist these clients with their organization, federal and state registration, capital raising and ongoing securities law compliance needs.