We advise emerging brands, entrepreneurs, and investors on business formation strategies and structures.

We advise boards of directors and individual executives on corporate governance, risk reduction, liability avoidance, and tax reporting and disclosure requirements.

We advise, structure, and form companies, including brand holding companies, handle corporate governance, and securities matters. We also provide strategic advice on and structure and negotiate international cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs, divestitures, franchises, and reorganizations.

We structure and negotiate executive and creative directors’ compensation, including structuring bonus, equity, stock option, severance, and other compensation packages.

We have helped negotiate and structure mergers and sales, private equity, and venture capital transactions on behalf of companies, and private investors and investment funds.

We advise clients on all aspects and at all stages of financing their businesses - from angel, seed, and early rounds to venture and later rounds, including strategic ventures as an alternative to traditional financing sources. We counsel borrowers and lenders regarding traditional bank financings, factor financing, and other asset backed and secured transactions.

With our Intellectual Property Group, we help clients identify, buy, sell, finance, and protect intellectual property, including trade names, trade secrets, databases, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights.

We assist clients with manufacturing, wholesale and retail operations in all phases of the distribution and retail matters, including the development of and oversight of distribution networks, franchise systems, and purchase and sale agreements, including enforcement of distribution contracts and prevention of product diversion.