• Venture financing
• Public offerings
• Private equity and debt financing
• Start-ups
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Management, ESOP and other leveraged buyouts
• Intellectual property counseling
• Corporate partnering and licensing
• Broker-dealer, NASD, securities law and other regulatory compliance
• Executive compensation

Entrepreneur and start-up representation 

• advice and counsel on the effective use of corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships; initial organization and governance; 
• review of business plans to ensure that necessary issues have been thought through
• provide the necessary access to and credibility with venture capital firms
• secure proper rights to their technology
• develop and negotiate agreements for technology development licensing and distribution issues that arise with joint ventures and strategic partnerships

Representation for growth and mature companies

• early-stage capitalization, raising follow-on debt and equity capital through bonds, intermediate term notes, commercial paper and asset-backed securities 
• define and structure stock and other equity plans and arrangements for executive compensation and employee benefit programs
• acquisitions to achieve critical mass, new products, or shareholder liquidity 
• audits to ensure that selling companies have taken the necessary steps to obtain exclusive rights to its technology
• dispositions, stock and cash mergers and joint ventures, debt  domestic and international transactions, contractual relationships 
• bankruptcy and reorganization 
• skilled at pooling of interest and structuring transactions to obtain most favorable tax treatment 
• cash tender offers, sales and purchases of assets, corporate restructurings

Public securities representation 

• represent issuers and underwriters in public offerings of securities, including initial public offerings 
• representation to U.S. and foreign public companies traded on NASDAQ and the principal U.S. stock exchanges 
• drafting SEC-compliant disclosures 
• securities litigation on outstanding options and equity interests, short-swing trading restrictions, disposition of ERISA plan assets, effect of acquisitions on employee benefits
• Rule 144A transactions to provide expedited access to capital 

Intellectual property representation 

• register clients' trademarks and service marks both domestically and worldwide 
• development, licensing and protection of technology,  trademarks, copyrights, know-how, trade secrets and other kinds of intellectual  property