Practice Groups
Corporate
Sadis & Goldberg represents a wide variety of corporations and financial institutions in corporate finance transactions, as well as:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private investment vehicles (hedge funds, venture capital funds, buyout firms in fund formation and private equity investments)
- Start-ups and their financing sources
- Domestic and international corporations in strategic alliances
- Outside counsel for numerous public and private corporations for their general corporate needs
Our corporate, finance and securities lawyers are experienced in all aspects of federal and state securities regulation. We frequently act as counsel to issuers and investors in private placements of equity and debt securities. We also advise issuers preparing for public offerings of securities and provide ongoing securities law advice to our corporate clients.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Sadis & Goldberg's Mergers and Acquisitions Group focuses on structuring issues, negotiating, documenting and closing business mergers, acquisitions and divestiture transactions. Attorneys from relevant legal areas coordinate to provide the experience needed for each of these transactions, including counsel on:
- Tax
- Real Estate
- Labor
- Antitrust
- Corporate Finance
- Intellectual Property
- ERISA
- Litigation
- Private Equity
Our expertise includes:
- Consumer and Retail
- Financial Institutions
- Infrastructure
- Chemicals
- Energy
- Insurance
- Real Estate
- Publishing
- Defense
- Apparel
- Steel
The Mergers and Acquisition Group represents private companies acquiring or selling assets for cash and public companies engaged in merger or acquisition transactions requiring securities advise. The attorneys are experienced in representing both acquirers and targets in friendly and hostile takeovers. We regularly handle joint ventures and strategic alliances, structuring these agreements with special attention to the business and tax consequences they pose. Transactions include PIPE investments, distressed sales, including those effected under Section
363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and sales of portfolios of financial instruments, such as furniture leases and accounts receivables.
Private Equity and Venture Capital Investing
With the Firm's experience in venture capital and buyout transactions, our attorneys play a strategic role in connecting cutting-edge start-ups and private and public companies with financing sources and strategic corporate partners. The Firm handles equity investments in private companies at all stages of development, from seed capital through initial public offering, and in a variety of industries including software, consumer products, information processing, telecommunications, healthcare, Internet and new media. We regularly advise on the structure and terms of securities offerings and negotiate the related agreements. We often become strategic advisors to these companies.
Franchises and Retailers
The Firm has been representing franchisees, franchisers, retail companies and their owners for over 50 years. We regularly advise clients on structuring and negotiating the purchases and sales of retail businesses. We routinely represent franchisees in structuring and negotiating franchise transactions.