Business Transactions
Cohen Seglias’ Business Transactions Group offers a broad range of services to meet our clients’ business and transactional needs. Our attorneys counsel businesses at every stage of their progression, from emerging businesses to mature corporations. The Group’s clients span a wide variety of industries including real estate, professional services, health care, financial services, energy, engineering, and construction. Our goal is to build long-term success while avoiding potential liabilities.
- Represented Materials Sciences Corporation, a composites engineering and manufacturing company, and its shareholders in a corporate reorganization (including a spin-off of its Countervail Products division) and its acquisition by defense contractor Seemann Composites, Inc.
- A $6 million transaction involving three concrete plants, four pieces of real estate, a 1031 exchange, vehicles, and equipment.
- A $9 million loan restructuring for an electrical contractor.
- A $135 million construction project for the development of several properties, representing the property owner in the negotiation of construction contracts.
- An $8 million letter of credit facility financing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy debtor, representing the lender.
In addition to providing day-to-day business advice, we create the commercial contracts and documentation necessary for conducting business. We assist startup businesses in the selection of the entity or corporate structure and draft all formation and company governance documents. For established businesses, we advise on company finance and refinance matters and draft agreements relating to the purchase, sale, and financing of both goods and real estate. Our attorneys help companies grow and reach their full potential by structuring mutually beneficial joint venture agreements and providing counsel to both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions. When the future of a business is uncertain, we are capable of quickly and ably addressing issues of succession planning, changes in ownership, sale of the business, exit strategies and, if necessary, business divorces or dissolutions.