Practices

Sedgwick’s corporate attorneys have significant experience representing multinational and domestic companies, from startups to small and midsized entities to Fortune 500 corporations.  The firm’s expertise spans a diverse range of industries, including insurance, financial services, chemicals, pharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences, food and beverage, hospitality, media, entertainment and sports, fashion, consumer products, energy, industrial manufacturing, real estate, and technology.  Our corporate attorneys counsel clients on all facets of their business law needs from formation, corporate governance, and daily operations to financing and transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients.

Sedgwick’s corporate attorneys have significant experience representing multinational and domestic companies, from startups to small and midsized entities to Fortune 500 corporations.  The firm’s expertise spans a diverse range of industries, including insurance, financial services, chemicals, pharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences, food and beverage, hospitality, media, entertainment and sports, fashion, consumer products, energy, industrial manufacturing, real estate, and technology.  Our corporate attorneys counsel clients on all facets of their business law needs from formation, corporate governance, and daily operations to financing and transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients.

Corporate Governance

Sedgwick attorneys regularly advise clients in all aspects of corporate governance, including board and board committee composition, process and independence and shareholder matters.  We have extensive expertise working with clients on matters involving succession planning with respect to ownership and management transition.  Our corporate practice draws on the expertise of our corporate, finance, employment and litigation attorneys to provide our clients with the information and analysis needed to respond to a rapidly changing environment.

Entity Formation and Startup Services

Our attorneys have extensive experience working on a variety of financing and capital formation transactions.  We counsel entrepreneurs starting new ventures, advise on the formation of companies and equity structures, and negotiate with equity and venture capital investors.  We assist early stage clients with all of their initial legal needs, including employment arrangements, employee benefits matters, trademark and copyright matters, and shareholder agreements.  We provide the full breadth of services and expertise to serve these clients as they grow and mature.

Financing

Our corporate practice handles all of our clients’ needs with respect to debt and equity financing, lending, private investment and equipment leasing.  Our experience includes venture capital and private equity investments, private placements, syndicated and single-bank credit lines, acquisition financings, structured finance, off-balance sheet financings, capital leases, and other debt vehicles.  We have extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of commercial contracts that are necessary for our clients’ ongoing business operations, whether in early and growth stage ventures or large multinational corporations. These include distribution, manufacturing and supply, floor planning, licensing, strategic partnership, employment and severance, franchising, and other vendor or supplier agreements. Our corporate attorneys, together with our bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys, are adept at assisting clients with issues related to workouts and restructurings, and providing advice with respect to vendor or supplier insolvency. 

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our firm advises clients on all aspects of non-public mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions involving domestic and foreign business enterprises at all stages of development.  We work with our clients to address their issues and concerns, from the early pre-planning of the transaction and letter of intent, through due diligence, negotiations, closing of the transaction and post-closing integration of operations.  We have extensive experience counseling purchasers, sellers and financial advisors in a wide range of negotiated and contested transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases, divestitures, spinoffs, joint ventures, exchange and tender offers, and Chapter 11 asset acquisitions and auctions. We also counsel clients on corporate governance, defensive measures and other stockholder relations issues, as well as regulatory, environmental, employment, intellectual property and other matters that arise in connection with such transactional matters.

Sedgwick’s corporate attorneys have significant experience representing multinational and domestic companies, from startups to small and midsized entities to Fortune 500 corporations.  The firm’s expertise spans a diverse range of industries, including insurance, financial services, chemicals, pharmaceutical, biotech and other life sciences, food and beverage, hospitality, media, entertainment and sports, fashion, consumer products, energy, industrial manufacturing, real estate, and technology.  Our corporate attorneys counsel clients on all facets of their business law needs from formation, corporate governance, and daily operations to financing and transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients.

Corporate Governance

Sedgwick attorneys regularly advise clients in all aspects of corporate governance, including board and board committee composition, process and independence and shareholder matters.  We have extensive expertise working with clients on matters involving succession planning with respect to ownership and management transition.  Our corporate practice draws on the expertise of our corporate, finance, employment and litigation attorneys to provide our clients with the information and analysis needed to respond to a rapidly changing environment.

Entity Formation and Startup Services

Our attorneys have extensive experience working on a variety of financing and capital formation transactions.  We counsel entrepreneurs starting new ventures, advise on the formation of companies and equity structures, and negotiate with equity and venture capital investors.  We assist early stage clients with all of their initial legal needs, including employment arrangements, employee benefits matters, trademark and copyright matters, and shareholder agreements.  We provide the full breadth of services and expertise to serve these clients as they grow and mature.

Financing

Our corporate practice handles all of our clients’ needs with respect to debt and equity financing, lending, private investment and equipment leasing.  Our experience includes venture capital and private equity investments, private placements, syndicated and single-bank credit lines, acquisition financings, structured finance, off-balance sheet financings, capital leases, and other debt vehicles.  We have extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of commercial contracts that are necessary for our clients’ ongoing business operations, whether in early and growth stage ventures or large multinational corporations. These include distribution, manufacturing and supply, floor planning, licensing, strategic partnership, employment and severance, franchising, and other vendor or supplier agreements. Our corporate attorneys, together with our bankruptcy and restructuring attorneys, are adept at assisting clients with issues related to workouts and restructurings, and providing advice with respect to vendor or supplier insolvency. 

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our firm advises clients on all aspects of non-public mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions involving domestic and foreign business enterprises at all stages of development.  We work with our clients to address their issues and concerns, from the early pre-planning of the transaction and letter of intent, through due diligence, negotiations, closing of the transaction and post-closing integration of operations.  We have extensive experience counseling purchasers, sellers and financial advisors in a wide range of negotiated and contested transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases, divestitures, spinoffs, joint ventures, exchange and tender offers, and Chapter 11 asset acquisitions and auctions. We also counsel clients on corporate governance, defensive measures and other stockholder relations issues, as well as regulatory, environmental, employment, intellectual property and other matters that arise in connection with such transactional matters.