Practice Areas & Industries: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

The global economy has ushered in new challenges and opportunities for business. Our corporate attorneys provide guidance necessary to respond to the operating and regulatory needs of our clients and today’s demanding business climate. We represent global companies that compete in changing domestic and international business environments, including New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ listed companies.

The diversity of our clients’ needs and the complexity of their transactions have allowed us to earn a national reputation in securities, mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions. The frequency and sophistication of our transactional work have enabled us to gain distinction in industries such as energy and public utility, franchising and distribution, specialty retailing, financial institutions, and healthcare.

Our transactional business is fortified by interdisciplinary legal skills to assess business risk and resolve disputes arising from complex commercial operations. Our corporate practice is supplemented by attorneys with extraordinary commercial experiences involving corporate governance, officer and director fiduciary duties, regulatory compliance, government investigations, antitrust, labor and employment, tax and intellectual property.

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We provide specialized legal support for business development, capital planning, ownership transition and corporate value strategies.

Our corporate attorneys are experienced in all aspects of business planning and problem solving, from the formation and initial financing of a business, to acquisitions, mergers and liquidations. We have more than 100 attorneys dedicated to corporate transactions and providing legal guidance for:

• General corporate representation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Secured and unsecured debt financing
• Real estate syndications
• Tax-exempt financing
• Public offerings, including IPOs
• Private placements and venture capital
• Securities representation of underwriters and investment companies
• Joint ventures and international expansion
• Leveraged buyouts and leveraged ESOPs
• Asset securitizations
• Intellectual property protection
• Taxation

Our corporate attorneys provide guidance to executives and managers in the areas of corporate governance and compliance accountability. Our board member counseling addresses the duties and responsibilities of boards of directors, audit, compensation and special committees.

Several members of our group are active leaders in a wide variety of sections of the American Bar Association and the Customs & International Trade Bar Association. Twelve of our attorneys were listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2009 for Corporate Law; many of our attorneys have authored and lectured on corporate law for a range of publications and clients.

In the years 2002 - 2006 we have completed:

• 1,389 corporate transactions (more than $40 billion)
• 279 acquisitions, mergers and sales