Finance/Capital Markets                             Recent Successes

The Capital Markets Group works extensively with regional incubators and business development resource centers to help startup and emerging companies with:

-   Business formation 
-   Creation of capital structure 
-   Seed capital financing transactions 
-   Angel funding 
-   Venture capital and follow-on financing 
-   IPO and other SEC/state registered offerings 
-   Private placements

Our private equity practice encompasses:

-   fund formation, institutional investor investments, and secondary market transactions
-   mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
-   venture capital, growth equity, and mezzanine financings
-   portfolio company representation, including leveraged recapitalizations, litigation, governance issues, employee benefits and employment matters and intellectual property matters

Our client service teams are lead by experienced deal lawyers able to provide judgment and knowledge derived from experience.  Our transactional lawyers are able to service our clients' needs completely by drawing upon the firm's resources in the areas of tax law, finance, employment law, intellectual property law, and other areas frequently confronted when structuring transactions and allocating risks among buyer and seller.  Among other things, our experience in leveraged finance provides our clients engaging in leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, and recapitalizations with market insights and positive results.