For large and small public companies, our Public Company Reporting and Corporate Governance attorneys serve as key partners in a range of business and legal matters.
We draw on our depth of experience in SEC compliance and corporate governance matters to provide advice that integrates legal requirements with best practices, trends, client knowledge, and practical judgment. Our guidance on complex business problems helps clients comply with applicable laws, minimize risk, and support their business initiatives.
We advise on compliance with applicable securities laws, exchange listing requirements, state corporate laws, shareholder activism, and with respect to shareholder advisory firms. Our attorneys have extensive experience in securities regulatory compliance and disclosure.
Our team’s focus is on providing counsel to leading public companies. We advise issuers, boards of directors, management, shareholders and underwriters in SEC filings, significant corporate events, corporate governance, public offerings, private placements, at-the-market offerings, investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations, and other corporate and commercial finance transactions, an increasingly vital service given issuer capital needs.
sound advice and practical judgment
The knowledge we have gained from providing counsel to leading publicly traded companies positions our nationally recognized lawyers to provide advice with respect to:
- Ongoing regulatory compliance: We advise on compliance with complex SEC and other regulatory requirements, including the preparation, review, and filing of SEC-required documents with respect to annual and periodic filings (e.g., Forms 10-K/Qs and Form 8-Ks), proxy statements, earnings press releases, investor materials, SEC comment letters, Regulation FD, Regulation G, beneficial ownership reporting, and Section 16 filings.
- Corporate governance: We counsel clients’ boards and executive officers regarding Sarbanes-Oxley, annual meeting matters, independence issues, related party transactions, takeover protections, disclosure issues, and internal investigations.
- Corporate finance and securities: All types of public offerings, recapitalizations, and other corporate transactions involving secondary offerings, at-the-market offerings, and private placements including registration statements and offering documents whether involving accredited investors, real estate investment trusts (REITs), or otherwise
- Mergers and acquisitions: We counsel clients in connection with negotiated and unsolicited transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and dispositions of subsidiaries, divisions, branches, other assets, investments, and joint ventures.
- Corporate restructurings: Internal reorganizations and unifications to streamline operations and for tax planning or other business objectives.
