Corporate/M&A

About

Provided by Perkins Coie LLP

Our Corporate practice is comprised of nearly 200 attorneys who provide M&A, counseling and finance services for businesses ranging in size from startups to FORTUNE 50 companies. Our clients include emerging companies, closely held private companies, private equity funds, venture capital funds, public companies and financial institutions. In addition, as part of a full-service firm with offices across the country, we have the depth and breadth to advise on virtually every legal area important to businesses, including tax, real estate, intellectual property and antitrust.

Services include:

• Advising on cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, carve-outs, spin-offs, recapitalizations, growth equity investments
• Working with businesses to choose the most suitable legal structure
• Advising businesses that operate in the corporate form on governance issues raised by having a board of directors
• Helping structure joint ventures, strategic alliances and other partnering arrangements
• Protecting client interests by preparing and reviewing shareholder agreements, executive compensation arrangements, licenses, distribution and supply agreements, agreements for the purchase or sale of businesses and other kinds of business contracts
• Advising on the ever-changing reporting and governance requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, faced by publicly traded companies