Corporate/Securities Law

Transforming Businesses and Getting Deals Done

Innovative, practical and experienced, our corporate and securities attorneys are nimble, regularly working on all aspects of the corporate life cycle from formation through financing, including mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures. With exceptional commercial sensibility, the team regularly closes complex, transformative deals for clients around the globe.

Companies and their boards of directors, special committees, and senior management also rely on us to navigate compliance and disclosure issues, corporate governance requirements and business activities. Leveraging our experience in regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and securities laws, our attorneys often serve as outside general and special counsel for a diverse group of private companies.

We also advise investors, venture capitalists, private equity fund and fundless sponsors, high-net-worth individuals, and other investors across the spectrum of private and public equity and debt transactions.

Likewise, whether working with some of the nation’s most prominent mediators or working with the parties directly, we have deep experience assisting a range of sophisticated clients in resolving their most complex and significant concerns, disputes and litigations.

Fully integrated with our firm’s other practices, we actively collaborate with colleagues in our Tax, Real Estate, Employment, Employee Benefits, Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring Groups, among others, to address all relevant transaction issues. Further, our Shareholder Activism Practice, recognized as among the nation’s best, has an unmatched record in winning proxy contests.

As needed, we also work with firms throughout the United States and the world to achieve our clients’ objectives and deliver seamless and holistic client service.

• Represented Chatham Asset Management in its successful acquisition of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company following its bid to acquire the company.
• Represented I.D. Systems in its $140 million cash and stock acquisition of Pointer Telocation Ltd., an Israeli public company, and reorganization pursuant to which I.D. Systems and Pointer became wholly owned subsidiaries of PowerFleet, Inc., a new public holding company dual-listed on the Nasdaq Global Market and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
• Represented GlobalSCAPE, a public company and a pioneer in securing and automating the movement and integration of data, in its merger with HelpSystems pursuant to which HelpSystems acquired all outstanding shares of GlobalSCAPE for $9.50 per share in a transaction structured as a tender offer followed by a merger, valued at approximately $217 million.
• Represented an NYSE-listed hospitality company in a $800 million merger with a private equity firm.
• Represented Success Foods Management Group, LLC (d/b/a Torchy’s Tacos) in a significant minority private equity investment by General Atlantic. Following this transaction, he represented the founders of Torchy’s Tacos in the $325 million sale of their membership interests to affiliates of T. Rowe Price, D1 Capital Partners, Lone Pine Capital, and XN Capital.
• Represented Landry’s, Inc. in its acquisition of B.R. Guest Holdings, which owns and operates restaurant concepts including Atlantic Grill, Bill’s Bar and Burger, Blue Water Grill, Dos Caminos, Isabella’s and Strip House, from an affiliate of Starwood Capital Group.
• Represented Tallan, Inc., a technology solutions company, in connection with its sale of substantially all of its assets to Ernst & Young LLP.
• Represented ImmunityBio, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBRX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, in its approximately $40 million acquisition of a leasehold interest in a 409,000 square foot ISO Class 5 pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Western New York and certain related assets from global pharmaceutical company Athenex, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATNX).

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