Most of our clients are large enough to need sophisticated counsel, yet the range and nature of legal and business issues makes a full in-house legal team impractical. Others have existing legal departments but require additional depth or specific knowledge to round-out the legal needs of the organization. That’s where we come in.
Our Transactions and Outside General Counsel Group assists companies of all sizes and industries. We partner with clients to address business challenges with insight and perspective that complements an organization’s executive, management, and legal teams. Our group practice is made up of former in-house counsel—business-minded and technical attorneys—to assist companies in navigating the complex process of managing their legal needs.
What distinguishes us from traditional law firm models is our specific understanding of how to manage and address legal needs in all areas, from the cadence of day-to-day management and throughout the life cycle of a company.
We view our services as an investment in building and maintaining value for our clients. Our attorneys coordinate with business owners and their executive teams to get a full understanding of their goals for the company and their respective ownership interests, so we can provide proactive and strategic guidance. We make legal services management easy and efficient by integrating document processing and streamlining procedures. We help growing companies meet expanding legal needs efficiently and support homegrown enterprises in acquisitions as new business ventures, as well as positioning for acquisition, public offering, or business succession.
Our integrated approach centers on providing our clients with a multidisciplinary team. Each team includes the right blend of lawyers to handle intellectual property, real estate, labor and employment, litigation, risk management, transactions, and ownership succession. We continuously monitor developments and keep business owners up-to-date through regularly scheduled meetings and integrated updates using our digital platforms. Ongoing assessment and refinement are key to our approach.
Experience
- Represented a custom manufacturing company in the journey that led to a stock sale with a strategic buyer that enables the current owners to continue to operate the company, and participate in its success, after the sale. The journey has included developing and implementing programs by which key employees were provided the opportunity to become owners of the company; representing the company in acquisitions of other entities and product lines of other entities; advising on human resources, confidentiality of customer information, risk management, and other operational issues; negotiating and drafting agreements establishing key relationships; and advising executive management to build the value that led to a successful exit event for the owners of the company. We continue to represent the company after the sale.
- Represented a family-owned glass fabricator and installation firm in the design, modification and implementation of a long-term plan for successfully transferring ownership and operation of the company to the next generation of the family. Our representation included working with the first generation owners on their estate planning needs and addressing a situation where not all children are involved in the business. It has also included on-going representation of the company in avoiding and, if necessary, solving business issues that arise as a consequence of growth.
- Represented a multi-generational family manufacturing business, a client of more than 25 years, in a $50 million stock sale to a strategic buyer and continue to represent the client as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
