Public Companies

We advise a broad range of clients, from S&P 500 to newly public companies and those entering the IPO process, across a wide spectrum of industries. We are well-versed in the following areas:

• Equity capital market transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings and other financing transactions
• Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, spinoffs and other dispositions

• Banking and finance, including Rule 144A and registered investment grade and high-yield debt offerings, bank financings, asset-based and working-capital financings, and securitizations

• Securities offerings, filings, exchange listing requirements and reporting/disclosure obligations
• Going-public and going-private transactions
• Corporate governance and compliance issues
• Director and officer liability
• Executive compensation and taxes
• Shareholder engagement issues, proxy issues and control contests
• Data privacy and cybersecurity

Our attorneys have advised companies on some of the most complex IPOs, including those using the UpREIT, Up-C and other partnership structures. We regularly assist our clients in managing the regulatory and corporate governance obligations of being a public company, and we frequently collaborate with our leading Securities and Shareholder Litigation and White Collar Defense and Investigations teams to defend corporations and their officers and directors in high-stakes civil and criminal investigations and in multibillion-dollar, bet-the-company securities and shareholder actions.