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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Our Business Department of more than 75 attorneys provides responsive and creative advice for clients of all sizes in a broad range of industries.
From Start-ups to Emerging Businesses to Public Companies
We counsel newly formed businesses, rapidly growing smaller companies, and both publicly-owned and owner-managed mid-market and large companies.
- We understand the unique challenges of new ventures, including choice of entity, capital structure, protection of intellectual property, and agreements with key employees.
- We work with emerging businesses and venture capital funds in the structuring and documentation of equity and debt financing.
- We advise larger owner-managed businesses generally and in dealing with the special problems of management structure and inter-generational succession planning.
- We advise public companies in complying with their responsibilities under federal securities laws and in understanding the rapidly changing requirements of corporate governance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
A Range of Industries: Advice from Knowledgeable Attorneys
We partner with our clients to learn their businesses, so we are prepared for the specific legal issues they face. We regularly work with clients in many industries, including:
- Insurance companies, broker dealers and other financial institutions
- Public utilities
- Telecommunications companies
- Software developers
- Hospitals and other health-care providers
- Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
- Educational institutions
- Venture capital and other private equity funds
- Public charities
As Businesses Change: Meeting Needs Over Time
As business grows or responds to a rapidly changing environment, we provide assistance in the following areas:
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, divestitures, and partial or complete liquidations
- Financial transactions – public offerings of securities, private placements, tax-exempt and taxable public and project financings, commercial loans, and recapitalizations and refinancing securities offerings, private placements, tax-exempt and taxable public and project financings, loans, and refinancing
- Intellectual property – counseling, prosecutions, licensing and development agreements
- Domestic (federal, state and local) and international tax implications of proposed transactions
- Labor and employee benefits, represents employers on workforce issues, including organizing efforts by labor unions, executive compensation, and retirement plan preparation
- International – advice with respect to the inbound and outbound cross-border transactions.
Representative Matters
- Our Business and Insurance Practice Groups handled a transaction in which our client, an insurance company representing $33 million in premiums, transferred its assets and liabilities to another insurance company.
Our client is an insurance company representing $33 million in policies in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. When our client transferred its assets and liabilities to another insurance company, attorneys in our Business and Insurance departments handled the legal aspects of the transaction. The other party, a publicly traded holding company for nine regional property/casualty insurance companies, acquired our client’s policies, operations, and office facilities.
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