Capital Raising
It takes business savvy and professional relationships to expand beyond the comfort of traditional financing, but the results can be well worth the effort. Through the years, our attorneys have been creative in helping clients identify and implement innovative strategies to obtain capital.
We have substantial experience in representing both large and small companies in private and public capital raising and in merger and acquisition transactions. Our significant financial institution experience allows us to counsel clients on all aspects of capital formation, including debt and equity. We assist our clients in the ongoing management of their business affairs as well as their investment exit strategies, including using our mergers and acquisition, and securities law, experience to structure initial public offerings, stock and asset sales.
Specific areas of experience include:
Private Equity
Angel financings
Seed capital
Private placements
Mezzanine financing
Preferred and Convertible Preferred Share financings
Convertible Debt securities
Venture Capital
Public Companies
Registered Public Offerings
Rule 144A Official
1934 Act Periodic Repeating
Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance
Business Counseling and Strategic Planning
Entity formation
Tax planning
Equity compensation plans and incentives
Corporate governance
Technology licensing and protection
Executive employment agreements
Employee confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements
Mergers & acquisitions
Specialized financings including credit enhanced products and derivatives
Some examples of recent transactions include:
- Assisting clients with private placements for an aggregate of more than $50 million.
- Assisting our publicly traded clients in public offerings raising over $2.2 billion.
- Assisting our publicly traded clients in using their SEC registered securities valued at more than $15 billion as acquisition currency in numerous mergers and acquisitions.
Through this experience and involvement, GH&R has been able to keep on top of the current capital raising market and assist its clients on both the investing and the receiving sides of capital raising transactions.