Practice Areas

• GENERAL Corporate

Launching and building a business takes time, energy, and foresight.  Good decisions up front make growth manageable and troubled times easier to navigate.  We advise upon and assist with company jurisdiction, form and formation, shareholder agreements, employment contracts, and all kinds of commercial transactions.  In addition, we’ll help you protect your intellectual property by trademark, copyright or patent, and exploit the property’s value with licensing agreements.

Protecting your investment from liability to the greatest degree possible is crucial to any business owner.  We’ll advise as to the best way to do that, in a safe, legal and tax efficient manner.  We also advise as to sound business practices by providing practical no-nonsense general corporate guidance applicable to your day-to-day operating issues.   When it comes time to wrap up the business and move on, we can mediate disputes among partners/shareholders, put together a plan of liquidation and dissolve the company quickly and efficiently.

Sometimes disputes cannot be resolved among the parties and litigation is unavoidable.  We undertake basic commercial litigations/arbitrations, and for more complex matter can call upon our network of first class trial and appellate attorneys.  We will work with your litigators in a team approach.

• Investment Management

We provide a broad array of services to investment advisors, private and registered investment funds – with a particular expertise in off-shore funds – investment banks, Broker/Dealers, as well as boutique and diversified financial services firms.  We assist in formation, management company registration, fund terms and structuring, financing and capital raising, private equity investment structuring, and on-going advice with regard to operations.  Together with our affiliated consulting company, Hibernia Capital Consulting, we help fund managers set up all aspects of operations from securing office space to installing infrastructure to retaining service providers, and everything in between.

We regularly represent clients to regulators such as FINRA and the SEC in ’33 Act, ’34 Act,  ’40 Act  and Investment Advisors Act matters, and have most recently been focused on helping clients comply with Dodd-Frank requirements.

• International Business

We have particular expertise in international commercial transactions.  Through our contacts in Latin America and Europe we help clients structure and finance acquisitions, find buyers for businesses, make transactions tax efficient, and make sense of sometimes complicated foreign regulations.  Our lawyers have a network of attorneys in almost all major commercial jurisdictions which can provide local assistance when deals are done outside the United States.

We also assist in finding investments for clients, or marketing international companies when their equity owners are seeking an exit.  When you want to do business in Latin America, let us introduce you to the right people to help you accomplish your goals — and then structure your investment in the best possible manner.

• Finance and Securities

We represent issuers and underwriters in a wide range of corporate finance transactions involving debt and equity securities, including initial and follow-on public offerings, Rule 144A offerings, offshore securities transactions and private placements. We assist clients in complying with the registration, proxy solicitation and reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and with stock exchange and over-the-counter listing obligations. We also provide guidance on the complex and far-reaching obligations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, including requirements related to internal controls over financial reporting and corporate governance.

• Real Estate

New York City and surrounding areas have some of the most complex real estate laws in the country. We assist clients with residential purchases and sales; commercial acquisitions, development and dispositions; financing & leasing; 1031 exchanges; and dispute resolution.

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