Holland & Hart lawyers advise emerging growth companies on matters from business formation and financing to intellectual property protection and mergers and acquisitions.
Formation
We regularly plan and implement a full range of business and financial transactions for our growth-oriented clients. These services initially include assisting clients in the selection of appropriate, tax-efficient structures for business. As the business develops, clients often seek alliances with larger companies in order to finance their operations. We have experience in forming partnerships, strategic alliances, joint ventures, corporations, and limited liability companies. We also advise clients with respect to complex corporate reorganizations and refinancing.
Financing
We are actively involved in a broad range of capital funding activities for emerging businesses from seed to later stage financings. We have structured hundreds of debt and equity capital transactions for both private and public companies. As a result of our experience and contacts, we are able to advise clients about various financing alternatives and introduce them to potential financing sources across the country.
Mergers and Acquisitions
With expansion, business leaders often develop an interest in acquiring other entities or in selling their own enterprise. We have experience in the acquisition and disposition of companies and their assets, including the negotiation of tax-free mergers as well as financing and security arrangements. We have represented buyers, sellers and financial institutions in mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyout transactions.
Intellectual Property
Companies must aggressively protect key intellectual property to thrive. We have registered patent attorneys with experience in the four major technical disciplines of patent law: electrical, chemical, mechanical and life sciences. We also have attorneys experienced in trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters. We provide counsel in connection with foreign and domestic technology transfer and licensing, import-export trade control regulations, antitrust, unfair and anti-competitive practices, protection of trade secrets, exploitation of know-how, non-disclosure, and other agreements relating to intellectual property.
International
When it is time to expand beyond the borders of the United States, we help our clients gain access and navigate roadblocks. Members of the firm's international practice group have experience in technology transfers, export sales, imports, protection of intellectual property, multinational financing, overseas direct investments, joint ventures, and immigration.
Employee Benefits
We regularly work with businesses to develop appropriate benefit and incentive compensation plans.
Tax
We advise clients on a wide variety of sophisticated federal, state, local, and international tax matters including entity selection and formation, operational tax matters, business acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations and liquidations, and partnership taxation.
Other
The firm also has experience in other areas, which may be relevant to emerging businesses as they continue to grow. These include commercial lending, government contracting, trade regulation, real estate, environmental, creditors' rights, and litigation.
