Corporate Finance & Securities

Corporate finance is an intricate practice critical to a company’s growth and ongoing success—one that requires experienced attention paid to a broad and continually evolving set of laws and regulations. Given the pressure and visibility often at stake, your executives need rock-solid confidence in their lawyers.

Whether you are a mid-cap or Fortune 100 company, and regardless of the complexity of your deal, Davis Wright Tremaine’s corporate finance lawyers will provide you a legal team committed to learning your business and your people and committed to your success.

Our 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
When you hire us, the first thing we do is review your previous filings and, based on that knowledge, we sit down with your executives at our expense to make sure we understand where you are, where you want to go, and what your aspirations and worries are. On any given project, we make sure we understand how you define success and tailor our approach to that.

We also 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.

Our commitment to you
It is our priority to make sure we have a complete understanding of your business and your management team, as well as a thorough knowledge of your company’s financial condition and accounting needs and how you define success for any given project. To ensure we are aligned in meeting your goals and providing you impeccable service, we will:

• Try to begin each new project with an off-the-clock discussion to ensure we understand your business goals and priorities and to help us align our team to ensure your success.
• Staff your work efficiently and will not charge you for multiple lawyers participating in the same meeting or call unless each lawyer is bringing specific value to the table.
• Communicate regularly, consistently and efficiently with you—both about your legal issues and about your expectations for and experience with our performance.
• Develop a billing and fee approach that works best for you. We often provide defined services such as periodic reporting on a fixed-fee basis and are enthusiastic about developing alternative fee arrangements that align your incentives with ours, so you are confident we define our success based upon our ability to support yours.