Corporate and Business Transactions

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From daily operations to defining moments, our corporate and business transactions team works shoulder to shoulder with you to help advance your interests.

Overview

Like other AmLaw 100 firms, we provide top quality, depth, and breadth of experience. Unlike many such firms, we emphasize personal service, with teams that know your industries and learn the motivations behind your strategies, work in your rhythm and style to make our interactions as effortless as possible for you, and always represent you in ways that value your company’s relationships and reputation.

Working with Us

Defining Moments: We’ll Help You Reach Success

At key inflection points - an acquisition, sale or liquidity event, joint venture, strategic investment, or significant financing - we support you with a focused team that knows your goals. Our depth and diversity of experience allow us to align with the particular needs and styles of large, serial acquirers, private or family-owned businesses, and young, fast-growing companies. Besides the technical know-how to close significant transactions, we provide additional value by acting as your partner during the day-to-day operations of your business. Not only do these small legal needs require attention, but they allow us to work most efficiently and effectively during defining moments because we know you and your business at the outset.

Industry-Focused Insight

In some ways, a deal is a deal, and a technically competent lawyer can get just about any kind of deal done. And technically competent lawyers who have deep experience with a particular industry or type of company can bring special insight that can open up new opportunities, resolve tough conflicts, and focus the parties on what matters in your industry to make the deal more efficient. Our team includes lawyers with particular passion for serving companies in the technology, financial services, food and beverage, restaurant, healthcare, energy, timber, and manufacturing sectors. And their experience follows from their passion. They pair, as needed, with industry-focused regulatory lawyers and other substantive specialists steeped in the industry to provide a complete solution.

Daily Operations: No Unhappy Surprises

Close engagement enables us to offer practical advice that lights the path forward and avoids legal speed bumps that could impair your company’s progress. As we help you with negotiating your significant contractual commitments, advising your board of directors, or structuring equity incentive plans, we understand where you’re going, anticipate issues, and help you execute on opportunities to maintain your momentum.

Young Companies: Resources and Connections

The technical legal needs of young companies can be relatively straightforward. An efficient team that provides resources and connections, at the pace of your business, offers value beyond the legal work product. Our lawyers focusing on early stage and emerging growth companies use technology, templates, and process techniques to keep pace with you and preserve your cash. We minimize the distraction of “legal” so you can focus on your business plan while also drawing on our experience to prepare you for issues and opportunities that are well over the horizon. And we’ll tap our networks to help you. Our “Project W” program, for example, partners with other organizations to help female founders develop the relationships and skills they need to succeed.

Multidisciplinary Teams

Energy

Within the evolving energy industry, our experience covers wind, solar, geothermal, hydro facilities, natural gas, oil, and coal-fired plants. Our lawyers represent clients in the wholesale and retail sale of electric power, natural gas transportation and supply arrangements, and the purchase and sale of energy assets.

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Financial Services

In this rapidly changing industry, our lawyers combine transactional experience with a knowledge of the regulatory issues affecting transactions in this industry. We assist public and private financial institutions with the sale of branches, the organization of state and national banks and foreign subsidiaries, and compliance with federal and state securities laws.

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Food + Beverage

We know there is more to our clients’ businesses than what ends up on the shelves. Our industry-focused attorneys assist our agricultural, food, and alcohol clients with transformational events, as well as day-to-day counseling. Food safety and compliance, agricultural liens, family business transition, labeling and marketing, brand development and protection, contract brewing and distilling, custom crush agreements, and retail strategies - this listing is just a sample of our capabilities.

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Healthcare

Our team of healthcare lawyers is committed to assisting our clients with their mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures in this highly regulated industry. Focused on the issues unique to the healthcare industry, our lawyers provide guidance on corporate and tax restructuring, due diligence, regulatory and multistate regulatory approvals, and anti-kickback and Stark compliance.

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Manufacturing

Whether processing raw materials or finding a foreign supplier, our lawyers understand the challenges manufacturers face. We guide clients through the many aspects of their business, assisting them with development, growth, sales, and distribution.

Restaurants

The restaurant business moves quickly, and our lawyers keep up with the pace. With a team focused on industry knowledge and connections, we provide clients with legal advice to meet all of their needs, from financing to franchising to risk management.

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Technology

Transactions for technology companies are often riddled with issues ranging across the IP spectrum, including software copyright, patent, open source, or license transfer issues. Firmwide, our IP specialists collaborate with our M&A teams to assist with due diligence, identify issues, and craft solutions to manage or allocate risks that arise from IP issues in technology and software M&A.

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Timber

Our clients include commercial timberlands and privately held or family owned timberland investment companies. Our lawyers build long-term relationships with clients, getting to know their business goals and challenges. With a deep knowledge of the industry, we assist clients with acquisitions, sales of conservation easements, sales of timberland to real estate development, logging and cutting rights, and land use and environmental regulations.

Substantive Areas

Antitrust
Cross-border Transactions (China and Canada)
Family Business
Financings
Franchising
Governance
Mergers & Acquisitions
Principal Outside Counsel
Public Securities
Startups and Emerging Companies
Supply Chain Counseling and Distribution
Tax
Trusts and Estates

Transactional Experience

The team at Davis Wright Tremaine is honored to have assisted these and other outstanding companies in furthering their goals last year.
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Family Business

Insight and commentary on ownership and leadership transition, family wealth, and business succession.
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Project W

We partner with other organizations to help female founders develop the relationships and skills they need to succeed.
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Practice Contacts

Sean Cann
Sean P. McCann
Partner
Chair, National Corporate and Business Transactions Practice
Seattle
206.757.8099
Tune, Sarah English
Sarah English Tune
Partner
Chair, National Corporate and Business Transactions Practice
Seattle New York
206.757.8161
212.603.6412

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