| Corporate Finance & SecuritiesOur corporate finance lawyers consistently guide our public company clients through the sensitive, time-critical disclosure issues facing them, and are keenly attuned to the need to balance timely, thorough information with a well-considered overall communications and management plan.
We routinely advise our clients on compliance reporting, exchange regulation and corporate governance matters, and guide them through successful transactions—from public offering, private placement or M&A, to tender offer or going-private transactions. We provide our clients a cross-practice spectrum of services, including when appropriate bringing our leading tax, employment, real estate and hospitality, media and entertainment, energy and other industry-specific experience to the table to best understand your industry from the inside out.
Custom-tailored approach
We believe that no good securities counsel can operate without a complete understanding of the client’s business and management team, and of the company’s financial condition and accounting needs. In a number of industries, including banking, financial services, telecommunications, computer hardware, software, media, entertainment and health care, our firm has nationally recognized expertise that our securities lawyers can tap to more fully inform our work. |
Selected Experience Response to unsolicited tender offer. (2011) Initial public offering. (2011) Represented client in $177 million private equity financing and repurchase of trust preferred securities. (2011) Redemption of $100.3 million of preferred limited partnership interests in exchange for distribution of assets including four fishing vessels and related commercial fishing rights. (2010) Represented Semitool, Inc., in its $364 million tender offer and merger with Applied Materials, Inc. (2009) Represented Confirma in its $22 million merger with Merge Healthcare Inc. Confirma is the creator of Cadstream, a medical device software system that automates the processing of breast magnetic resonance imaging studies. (2009) $600 million initial public offering. (2007) $720 million senior note offering. (2006) Review and negotiation of merger agreement, preparation of SEC-filed proxy statement to secure approval of client shareholders, and post-closing securities work. (2006) $900 million private equity financing. (2006) Securities registration and NASDAQ national market listing. (2006) | | Search Experience | | | |  |
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