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Our Corporate Group provides responsive and creative advice for clients of all sizes in a broad range of industries.

From Start-ups to Emerging Businesses to Public Companies

We counsel newly formed businesses, rapidly growing smaller companies, and both publicly-owned and owner-managed mid-market and large companies.

• We understand the unique challenges of new ventures, including choice of entity, capital structure, protection of intellectual property and agreements with key employees
• We work with emerging businesses and venture capital funds in the structuring and documentation of equity and debt financing
• We advise larger owner-managed businesses generally and in dealing with the special problems of management structure and intergenerational succession planning
• We advise public companies in complying with their responsibilities under federal securities laws and in understanding the rapidly changing requirements of corporate governance under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

As Businesses Change: Meeting Needs Over Time

As business grows or responds to a rapidly changing environment, we provide assistance in the following areas:

• Corporate and entity governance – all types of corporate counseling from formation, including drafting charter documents, bylaws, as well as operating and partnership agreements, to counseling Boards of Directors
• Commercial transactions – customer, distributor and vendor contracts; credit policies, distributorship agreements, licensing agreements, internet-related agreements and issues, intellectual property agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment agreements, executive compensation and employee incentive programs
• Financing transactions – public offerings of securities, venture capital and private equity investments, private placements, tax-exempt and taxable public financings and project financings, equipment financing transactions, commercial loans, recapitalizations and refinancings
• Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, divestitures, and partial or complete liquidations
• Domestic (federal, state and local) and international tax advice, including advice on the implications of proposed transactions

A Range of Industries: Advice from Knowledgeable Attorneys

We partner with our clients to learn their businesses, so we are prepared for the specific legal issues they face. We regularly work with clients in many industries, including:

• Financial institutions, insurance companies and broker dealers
• Venture capital, hedge funds and other private equity funds
• Energy companies and public utilities
• Telecommunications companies
• Technology companies
• Software development companies
• Pharmaceutical and biotech companies
• Educational institutions
• Infrastructure and transportation companies
• Distributors
• Government contractors
• Gaming companies
• Clean energy companies

We counsel our clients through day to day business issues and through larger transactions, bringing Saul Ewing's numerous practitioners in a broad range of other practice areas to bear on any issue or transaction as needed. This range of practice areas is best displayed visually by our proprietary "service wheel" concept: