Keith G. Baldwin

Keith Baldwin is a highly experienced business transactions and securities lawyer with a forty-year history of serving clients’ legal needs. Keith focuses his practice on business relationships, including mergers and acquisitions, making agreements and solving problems among owner-entrepreneurs, and best practices for corporate governance. Keith’s practice particularly emphasizes family-owned and other closely held private businesses, businesses funded by non-U.S. investors, and U.S. subsidiaries of foreign corporations. He assists growth-oriented companies in raising capital in compliance with federal and state securities laws, and serves as outside counsel to both emerging and mature businesses. He is also co-editor of Davis Wright Tremaine’s Family Business Resource Center, a law blog serving family-owned and closely held businesses.

Keith is a frequent public speaker on business succession planning and corporate matters, and co-authored the Private Equity Funds chapter of the "Washington Partnership and Limited Liability Company Deskbook." He is also a frequent speaker to inbound Chinese investors on doing business in the United States.

Practice Highlights

• Counseling business owners in transitioning their interests to another generation or to management
• Advising private companies on corporate governance and ethical standards that derive from adoption of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Corporate mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset transitions, spinoffs and recapitalizations
• Advising inbound Chinese investors on U.S. business and investment practices
• Corporate shareholder/management dispute resolution where litigation is not a realistic option
• Extensive experience with Federal Regulation D and state blue sky laws, Rule 144, Investment Advisers Act, and Investment Company Act exemptions for private companies
• Advising investment professionals on the formation of private investment funds, including hedge funds, venture funds, social benefit funds and real estate funds