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 transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients. In addition to representing operating companies, we regularly represent angel, venture capital, and other investors in various industries.

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 transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients. In addition to representing operating companies, we regularly represent angel, venture capital, and other investors in various industries.

The Sedgwick Difference

Sedgwick’s unique approach to client service gives us a distinct advantage over both small firms that lack our breadth of capabilities and the larger firms whose business models appear to conflict with the economic realities confronting businesses today. We partner with in-house counsel and management, take an interdisciplinary approach to servicing client needs, and work seamlessly to integrate appropriate internal and external resources across practice areas and geographic regions to provide the most cost-effective solutions.

Trusted Business Advisors. Sedgwick takes a hands-on approach to each representation, developing close, long-term relationships with our clients. As trusted business advisors, we serve as an integral part of our clients’ in-house legal teams or, for small or midsized companies, as a full service outside general counsel. We deliver sophisticated, pragmatic advice regardless of the complexity of the legal or business issues involved.

Interdisciplinary Approach. In order to meet the multifaceted needs of our clients, we take an interdisciplinary approach to building the appropriate team for each client or matter. In addition to our corporate experience, our clients rely on our knowledge in related practice areas, including antitrust, bankruptcy and restructuring, employee benefits, employment and labor, real estate, environmental, and intellectual property. Our trial lawyers stand ready to assist our corporate clients should the need arise.

The Right Resources. While Sedgwick’s attorneys have expertise in all of the core competencies expected from a full service firm, we recognize that in order to provide the highest quality service in a cost-effective manner it is sometimes beneficial for the client if we work collaboratively with outside professionals. We have, therefore, developed a network of trusted experts whom we can call upon to assist our clients allowing us to ensure that we have provided the best possible team for each engagement.

Cost-Effective. Sedgwick is respected for our ability to provide high quality, efficient legal service solutions to business challenges. Through our coordinated approach methodology and our effective utilization of resources, our clients know that we will appropriately staff our matters and not take on assignments that can be more efficiently managed either in-house or by other professionals.

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 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 and Ongoing Operations

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 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 transactional matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many of our clients. In addition to representing operating companies, we regularly represent angel, venture capital, and other investors in various industries.

The Sedgwick Difference

Sedgwick’s unique approach to client service gives us a distinct advantage over both small firms that lack our breadth of capabilities and the larger firms whose business models appear to conflict with the economic realities confronting businesses today. We partner with in-house counsel and management, take an interdisciplinary approach to servicing client needs, and work seamlessly to integrate appropriate internal and external resources across practice areas and geographic regions to provide the most cost-effective solutions.

Trusted Business Advisors. Sedgwick takes a hands-on approach to each representation, developing close, long-term relationships with our clients. As trusted business advisors, we serve as an integral part of our clients’ in-house legal teams or, for small or midsized companies, as a full service outside general counsel. We deliver sophisticated, pragmatic advice regardless of the complexity of the legal or business issues involved.

Interdisciplinary Approach. In order to meet the multifaceted needs of our clients, we take an interdisciplinary approach to building the appropriate team for each client or matter. In addition to our corporate experience, our clients rely on our knowledge in related practice areas, including antitrust, bankruptcy and restructuring, employee benefits, employment and labor, real estate, environmental, and intellectual property. Our trial lawyers stand ready to assist our corporate clients should the need arise.

The Right Resources. While Sedgwick’s attorneys have expertise in all of the core competencies expected from a full service firm, we recognize that in order to provide the highest quality service in a cost-effective manner it is sometimes beneficial for the client if we work collaboratively with outside professionals. We have, therefore, developed a network of trusted experts whom we can call upon to assist our clients allowing us to ensure that we have provided the best possible team for each engagement.

Cost-Effective. Sedgwick is respected for our ability to provide high quality, efficient legal service solutions to business challenges. Through our coordinated approach methodology and our effective utilization of resources, our clients know that we will appropriately staff our matters and not take on assignments that can be more efficiently managed either in-house or by other professionals.

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 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 and Ongoing Operations

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 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.