Fogel & Potamianos LLP

Increasing complexity, volatility, and uncertainty. These are some of the challenges that our clients face each day. And they reach out to us when they are looking for more than legal counsel. Yes, we are a team of attorneys from the top law firms and schools in the nation. But that doesn’t mean we give advice from ivory towers. We are business-minded attorneys who make things happen. Whether it’s implementing corporate governance best practices, developing lucrative patent and trademark portfolios, making a series of company acquisitions, negotiating a company sale, forming a venture fund, or negotiating a term sheet for a target investment, our clients look to us to advise them and to help make these things happen.

Corporate Practice & Contracts:

Fogel & Potamianos LLP has assembled a team of exceptional corporate attorneys who are skilled in representing clients in varied corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions matters. Our corporate attorneys know the law – but are also practical and business-savvy. They advise on business matters; they negotiate effective agreements; they counsel corporate boards; and they work with their colleagues in all our other departments to get complex deals done right. Our Corporate Practice Group strives to provide a customized level of service unmatched by larger law firms.

Patents & Intellectual Property:

The intellectual property practice at Fogel & Potamianos LLP has over 20 years experience providing specialized counseling to help inventors, startups, universities, as well as small and Fortune 500 companies navigate complex IP matters. Our extensive background in product development and engineering allows us to generate value-added IP portfolios, including acquisition of strong, enforceable patents that precisely protect the most complex technologies with the maximum scope available. Being entrepreneurs ourselves, we approach our client’s matters with the intensity and care as if they were our own. We offer a full suite of expertise in all areas of intellectual property, including; patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets to enable our clients to create, expand, and protect the value of their branding, businesses and most prized intellectual assets.

Mergers & Acquisitions:

In the merger and acquisitions area, we negotiate and manage mergers; sales and purchases of assets, subsidiaries, and divisions; going-private transactions; MBOs; spin-offs; fairness opinion and corporate governance matters; and related transactional and M&A advisory engagements. Our attorneys represent buyers, sellers, investors, shareholders, boards of directors and special committees, financial advisors and investment banks, broker-dealers and lenders in structuring, negotiating, and consummating complex international and domestic change-in-control transactions, stock-for-stock exchanges, mergers of equals, cash-out mergers and other methods of business combination for large, mid and small-cap companies, as well as privately held businesses.

Fund Formation & Investment Support:

The lawyers at Fogel & Potamianos LLP provide tailored and sophisticated solutions to venture capital, hedge and other funds, from fund formation through their first and successive financings through their portfolio investments. With an intimate understanding of the ecosystem of funds, investors, and target investment opportunities, Fogel & Potamianos structures funds at the formation stage for the unique needs of each fund, assists with fund capital raises, performs due diligence for target investments, negotiates with target companies and investors, and performs post-closing compliance. The firm also holds regular meetings with its clients to provide strategic direction as well as proactive guidance as the fund develops and becomes more complex. While clients appreciate the strategic and proactive approach of Fogel & Potamianos, the firm also provides concierge level general counsel for day-to-day needs and operations of the fund. Clients have close relationships with our partners, who are only a phone call away.

Sports & Entertainment:

The Sports and Entertainment Group at Fogel & Potamianos LLP prides itself on helping athletes maximize their personal brand, capitalize on strategic business opportunities, and preserve their legacy. We provide sophisticated counsel to athletes for all off-field contracts, business dealings, and nonprofit work. Our work includes negotiating broadcasting, memorabilia, speaking, endorsement, licensing, promotion, publishing, television and film production, and other deals. We also serve as their offsite general counsel, helping athletes and their business team vet opportunities and establish their own companies. Finally, we help athletes protect their name and likeness through strategic trademark prosecution.

General Counsel:

The General Counsel Group supports small or mid-sized companies with a GC who is inundated with compliance and regulatory tasks and cannot get it all done; or, who faces the Hobson’s choice of either handling these essential responsibilities or paying attention to the critically important advisory part of his or her job. Alternatively, we provide offsite general counsel for rapidly growing companies without a general counsel capability whose growth has outstripped its ability to manage the compliance and regulatory functions of its business.

Fogel & Potamianos LLP has offices in Los Angeles, CA (Headquarters) and Austin, TX.