Mergers, Acquisitions, Private Placements, Joint Ventures and Company Formation
Our business and corporate attorneys have broad experience in representing buyers, investors, issuers, lenders, officers and directors in mergers, asset sales, stock sales, investments, loans, private placements, joint ventures, company formations and commercial business agreements. The transactions have ranged in size from under one million to the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Silver & Freedman also has extensive expertise in ancillary but critically important matters that arise from such transactions, such as employment and consulting agreements, equity incentive plans, license agreements, agreements with investment bankers and business brokers, real estate leases, escrow agreements, asset protection and estate planning.
Understanding the impact of other areas of law, such as tax, employment (especially with California businesses) and intellectual property, is key in these types of transactions. Our business and corporate attorneys often draw on the diverse expertise of other lawyers in the firm to address these issues.
We have represented many of our clients from initial start up, through any accretion phase, to a possible sale. We have also represented many clients through a series of acquisitions and investments. Many of our M&A lawyers hail from national law firms. As such, Silver & Freedman has deliberately positioned itself to offer a compelling cost effective alternative to the national law firms, particularly for transactions in the one million to fifty million dollar range. The industries we serve include:
- Apparel
- Food and Beverage
- Manufacturing/Distribution
- Software and Technology
- Marketing
- Pharmacies and Medical Practices
- Printing
- Retail
- Real Estate