Our Focus
We assist clients with a wide variety of business and legal challenges confronting them in an increasingly complex global economy. We also assist a number of public and private companies as general outside counsel and provide advice in domestic and cross-border transactional matters. Our attorneys are committed to understanding our clients' objectives, businesses and markets so that we augment the value we bring to each transaction and enhance the client's ability to prosper and grow. With more than a century of experience handling corporate transactions, we are dedicated to building strong client relationships and meeting clients' most sensitive and critical needs by:
Balancing risk management and deal execution based on client-specific criteria.
- Providing the due diligence, planning and management to complete transactions quickly and efficiently; adding value, while meeting clients' business objectives and expectations in accordance with laws and regulations.
- Helping clients anticipate potential hurdles and making transactions as seamless as possible for all parties.
- Assigning the right multidisciplinary team of lawyers to collaboratively address client issues and advance client strategies.
- Combining pragmatism and creativity and demonstrating a consistent and single-minded focus on addressing the client's priorities.
By building enduring relationships with clients&—from Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, board members and in-house counsel, to banks and investment funds, we have earned credibility and trust in the marketplace. That is why, each year, our firm is ranked highly in the prestigious Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business; numerous lawyers from our Corporate Practice are singled out for recognition.
Our Services
Offering a full spectrum of legal services and firmwide access to expert resources, our Corporate lawyers across the U.S. are committed to adding value and judgment to help our clients meet their objectives. Our services encompass a range of activities, including:
Our clients are engaged in a variety of industries, including health care and life sciences, manufacturing, consumer products, information technology, communications, financial services, insurance, transportation and business services.
Meeting Client Needs
We help our clients meet the full spectrum of business and legal challenges that confront them in a complex global economy. We also assist public and private companies as general outside counsel and provide advice in domestic and cross-border transactional matters.
Areas of Expertise
Asia Pacific
We counsel major Asian companies in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and other commercial/corporate transactions. Our attorneys understand the intricacies of the business climate in Asia and are able to draft, negotiate and close deals in various Asian languages. Our Asia Pacific specialists also represent clients based in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere in connection with investments, outsourcing arrangements and other business activities throughout Asia.
Banking & Finance
As counsel to major U.S. and international banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions, corporate borrowers and government agencies, we bring experience in negotiating and documenting complex transactions around the world.
Corporate Governance
We conduct corporate governance audits and advise corporations and their boards, special committees and audit committees on corporate governance matters.
Fund Services
We provide a full range of legal services to the alternative investment industry, particularly hedge funds and asset management firms. Clients range from emerging managers to some of the largest and best-known in the industry. Client strategies include long/short equity, global macro, country and sector funds, emerging market funds, risk arbitrage, activist, multi-strategy, fund of funds and multi-manager funds, distressed debt funds, PIPEs funds, hybrid equity funds, real estate funds, future funds, fixed income funds, mortgage-backed funds, CDO funds and commodity pools.
Mergers & Acquisitions
We guide clients through corporate acquisitions, dispositions and mergers, including public and private transactions, both contested and negotiated. We excel in getting difficult deals done and getting our clients what they need and want.
Outsourcing
We lead customers and service providers in the structuring, documentation, evaluation, and negotiation of complex outsourcing arrangements. While a majority of these arrangements relates to information technology, information services and telecommunications services, our experience extends to outsourcing of general business functions, including benefits plan management, real estate management, and billing, collection, and accounts receivable management.
Private Equity & Buyouts
We steer private equity sponsors through fund formation matters and through the numerous legal issues affecting their businesses day to day and over the long term. Our work
typically involves fund formation, acquisitions and sales,
regulatory compliance, and tax planning for private equity funds, including diversified funds, venture funds, buyout funds, mezzanine funds, loan funds and hedge funds.
Public Finance
We offer the full range of public finance expertise, including serving as bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, lender's counsel, issuer's counsel, credit facility counsel, borrower's counsel and trustee's counsel. We represent health care providers, real estate developers and other businesses working with states, cities and municipal entities on development incentives, legislation, tax abatement and other initiatives.
Securities
We advise public companies and investment banks as underwriter's counsel in equity and debt-based transactions. We are regularly engaged to help public companies meet securities law compliance and other regulatory and corporate governance requirements while advancing business goals.
Venture Capital & Emerging Growth
We counsel emerging growth clients and venture funds in an array of sectors, including life sciences, medical devices, telecommunications, semiconductors and information technology, and software and services. Core practice strengths include providing strategic, legal and financial guidance.
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Corporate transactions call for thoughtful planning that brings finance, tax, employment, intellectual property, regulatory and a host of other issues into alignment with your strategic objectives. Our Corporate Practice is enhanced by the complementary skills of lawyers in other national practice areas, including:
What Sets Us Apart
We distinguish ourselves from other law firms in important ways:
- Better understanding of clients' business operations, strategies and objectives.
- Clear, frequent and concise communications.
- Emphasis on assigning dedicated, senior-level lawyers to provide high-level counsel throughout representations.
- Focused coordination among all constituencies, with good judgment and efficient processes to minimize the impact on clients' management time and maximize client value and interests.
- Tailored staffing and defined solutions that meet the totality of clients' needs.
- Effective guidance through processes to translate all legal and business issues clearly.
- Flexibility in our thinking, proposing creative ideas that clients have not previously considered.
Recognition and Relationships
We have earned industry credibility and trust by building historic relationships with clients ranging from Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, board members and in-house counsel to banks and investment funds. Our clients view us as advisors and counselors.
Numerous Corporate Practice lawyers are ranked in the Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. As a firm, Sonnenschein is highly ranked in all key practice areas.
Through our active involvement with Lex Mundi, the world's leading association of independent law firms, we offer global execution capabilities with law firms rated among the best in more than 100 countries around the world. Our lawyers also serve in leadership positions for numerous Lex Mundi practice groups.
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