Stuart’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other complex business transactions for public and privately held entities including many of the region’s leading companies. Stuart also routinely advises founders of emerging technology and high growth companies and their investors with respect to entity formation, founder equity issuances, venture capital financings, strategic alliances, and liquidity transactions. Many of Stuart’s emerging company clients are in the Internet, software, wireless, and online game industries. Stuart also works with the firm’s bankruptcy group and has extensive experience managing recapitalization, restructuring and distressed sale and acquisition transactions.
Representative Experience
Double Down Interactive
Representation of casino style online social game company in its $500 million sale to International Game Technology.
Microsoft Corporation
Strategic Investments, acquisitions and dispositions of technology businesses and assets, including the acquisition of IPv4 addresses from Nortel Network’s bankruptcy.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
Representation of Warner Bros. in its acquisition of Snowblind Studios and in its successful bid in bankruptcy for the assets of Midway Games.
Big Fish Games, Inc.
Representation of the client in multiple rounds of venture capital financing and in acquisitions in the casual game space.
National Wireless Carrier
Multiple strategic transactions, including with a national communications leader that provides managed communication services in the form of integrated voice chat, presence to online games, virtual worlds and other online communities.
Clearwire Corporation
Representation of the client in $900 million equity financing led by Intel Capital and in numerous asset and spectrum license acquisitions.
Pacific Market International, LLC
Representation of the Company in connection with private equity investment by Joshua Greene Corporation.
GE Capital
Over 20 venture capital investments in technology companies and related strategic alliances.
Eagle River Holdings
Venture capital financings of S5 Wireless, Inc., Tello Corporation and World Wide Packets, Inc.
ICO Global Communications
Successful bid in 363 bankruptcy sale for the global communications and satellite assets of Globalstar, L.P.
The Seattle Hotel Group
Representation of the existing investor group in the recapitalization of Seattle’s Four Seasons Hotel and private condominium residences.
Institute for Systems Biology
Formation of ISB Accelerator Corporation, spin out of Integrated Diagnostics and various technology licensing matters.
ProBuild (formerly Lanoga Corporation)
Multiple acquisitions of building materials retail facilities across the US ranging from $10 million to $80 million.