Services

Our Private Companies group focuses on the needs of successful and emerging privately held businesses. These businesses are owned by one or more individuals, families, ESOPs, private equity funds or venture capital funds and often need counsel in the areas of:

• Business acquisitions
• Divestitures and other exit strategies
• IPOs
• Financing arrangements
• Capitalization
• Real estate
• Succession and estate planning
• Tax strategies
• Employee benefits
• Executive compensation
• Intellectual property
• Corporate governance
• Franchising

The lawyers in our Private Companies group are trusted advisers for their clients, bringing to bear their own depth of knowledge and experience as well as the broad capabilities of our firm and a focus on efficiency, responsiveness and practical solutions. Through our offices in the U.S. and Europe, and correspondent law firms throughout the world, we provide pragmatic, cost-effective legal counsel. As a full-service firm, we are uniquely positioned to handle the complete spectrum of day-to-day legal needs of private companies.