US public companies

Our US public companies team combines deep knowledge of securities laws and market trends with a nuanced understanding of deal structures to advise public companies, those seeking to become public, and their boards of directors, special committees and c-level executives on transactions, corporate governance and securities law, as well as litigation and regulatory matters. 

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, spin-offs 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 team has 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. Meanwhile, 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.