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| Business Financing |
Our broad and significant securities
experience allows us to effectively aid companies in raising seed rounds and
early stage capital, structuring more significant investments in your
businesses, structuring debt financing without commercial or individual lender and/or
exploring other financing options. We are also focused and efficient when it comes to
proper disclosure and documentation of private placements, and work with clients to
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Commercial & Business Litigation and
Dispute Resolution |
With over 20 years of legal experience, our litigation attorneys have provided efficient, result-oriented litigation and dispute resolution services in state and federal courts throughout California and other states on a pro hac vice basis. We have substantial experience litigating a wide range of disputes involving commercial and business contracts, construction and real estate matters, trade secrets, employment, and technology-related license agreements. We are also well-versed in the skills required to resolve matters prior to litigation through the use of mediation. In addition, we have also been retained as arbitrators and mediators to resolve private disputes between litigants.
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| Danube Alliance |
We have formed an affiliation with the Law Office Todorova - Business Banking Corporate Environmental Legal Counsultancy (BBCELC) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Through this alliance, the Firm has assisted Bulgarian
businesses conduct operations in the U.S., and is also able to refer U.S.
businesses to competent counsel in Bulgaria. The Law Office Todorova
specializes in business, banking, corporate, environmental counseling,
commercial law, civil law, competition law, foreign investment and
privatization, tax and real estate.
Law Office Todorova is also the founder of the Balkan European Lawyers (BEL), an
organization formed to unite highly experienced lawyers throughout the
Balkans.
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| Employment Counseling & Employee Compensation |
We assist companies
with employee (and independent contractor) related issues, including
employee training and the preparation of employee offer letters and agreements,
employment and policy manuals, confidentiality agreements, and severance agreements and with
compensation-related matters, such as stock option and profit-sharing plans.
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| General Business Counsel |
We offer vast legal services as
general/corporate counsel to a diverse client base that includes non-profit corporations,
public corporations, venture capitalists, emerging companies, partnerships, small businesses,
community-based enterprises, municipal entities as well as private individuals such as
investors, founders, and inventors. We advise clients on the myriad of business
and legal issues that often impact the life of a business enterprise, including the selection,
structuring and maintenance of corporate, partnership or limited liability entities, the drafting of
a variety of contracts and agreements, and the negotiation of equity and debt financings, mergers and
acquisitions, shareholder buy-outs, strategic alliances, joint ventures and asset purchases and sales.
We also counsel directors and officers on issues related to change of control, personnel and
management, diversity, accountability, privacy and other general policy and practice issues, including the
legal ramifications of proposed business endeavors.
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| Intellectual Property |
We assist
businesses and investors in their efforts to protect and capitalize on their unique intellectual property ideas and assets.
We advise clients on strategies for protection of valuable property through trade secret, trademark and copyright procedures.
We further advise companies on the design and implementation of licenses, strategic
alliances and joint ventures to develop and market intellectual property.
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Mergers, Acquisitions, Franchising & Restructuring Transactions |
Our firm has
substantial expertise in developing operational plans to assist companies
in organizing new businesses as well as executing transactions ranging from
mergers and stock or asset acquisitions to joint ventures, strategic
alliances, franchising or the establishment of subsidiary entities. Taking
into account your business’s organization, capital structure, regulatory and
taxation concerns, we work with our clients to structure a transaction that best
enables them to accomplish their objectives in the most effective and
efficient fashion.
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| NASD Broker-Dealer Representation |
Broker-dealers face a
host of regulatory issues arising under federal law as well as NASD rules.
We assist our broker-dealer clients in the NASD application process as well as with
maintenance, disclosure and other regulatory issues that arise in the course
of a broker-dealer's business.
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Public Finance |
Serving as co-bond counsel,
underwriter’s counsel and/or disclosure counsel, we offer representation
and counsel on public finance transactions. We have assisted with financings
related to or associated with general municipal infrastructure,
power, the acquisition of equipment or development of real property, transportation,
education and utility systems. Members of our public finance team have
collectively participated in transactions totaling more than $11 billion
involving tax-exempt bonds, including revenue bonds and general obligation
bonds, commercial paper, tax and revenue anticipation notes and certificates
of participation.
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Securities, SEC Reporting and Compliance |
We have a broad
securities practice focusing on Federal and State securities offerings
and compliance matters, including a tremendous depth of experience in
preparing and filing secondary registration statements.
We provide timely and
efficient counsel to SEC reporting companies, and are experienced in a broad
range of disclosure, timing and other issues that arise in the course of
filing 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other periodic reports as well as annual meetings
and proxy statements. We are also accustomed to working closely with auditors and
in-house accounting staff to properly address questions that touch on
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