Corporate
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Overview
Businesses operate in a dynamic landscape, facing financial, operational, and regulatory challenges at every stage – from formation and growth to restructuring and exit. Adams & Reese provides strategic corporate counsel, equipping companies with the legal insight and industry-specific guidance needed to navigate these complexities with confidence. Whether structuring transactions, managing governance matters, or optimizing tax strategies, our attorneys take a proactive approach to protecting and advancing our clients’ business interests.
Comprehensive Counsel
We assemble teams that align with each client’s needs, ensuring efficient and cost-effective legal strategies. Our Corporate services include:
- Corporate Finance: We advise businesses on securing funding, executing transactions, and managing financial risk. Our attorneys represent borrowers and lenders in credit transactions, private securities offerings, and recapitalizations.
- Corporate Governance: We help clients establish and maintain governance frameworks that promote compliance and mitigate risk. Our attorneys advise on fiduciary obligations, regulatory compliance, and governance best practices.
- Tax Planning: Our attorneys develop tax-efficient strategies for business formation, mergers, acquisitions, and succession planning. We also represent clients before state, federal, and administrative authorities.
- Joint Venture and Entity Formation: We structure and negotiate joint ventures, help clients select business entities, and draft agreements that protect financial and operational interests.
- Agriculture and Timberland Finance: Our attorneys guide landowners, investors, and lenders in large-scale land transactions. We advise on tax-advantaged structures, REIT and TIMO investments, and credit facilities secured by land assets.
Industry-Specific Insights
At Adams & Reese, our legal counsel is backed by deep industry knowledge and experience. Our attorneys hold leadership roles in trade associations, have in-house corporate experience, and advise on sector-specific regulations. By integrating legal and business insights, we go beyond legal advice – serving as trusted partners who help clients navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
Defining Strengths
- Agriculture and timberland finance
- Business entity selection
- Commercial lending and credit facilities
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Fiduciary obligations
- Joint venture agreements
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private securities offerings
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk management
- Succession planning
- Tax
Experience
- Worked with an investment bank to put together a $430 million deal to fund the building of three new tankers.
- Completed two private debt-financing deals with a venture capital firm, including a total debt restructure with 125 creditors and about $50 million in debt.
- Worked on the sale of a private marine company to an investment group for $465 million, including estate planning for the owners.
- Representation of a U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese trading company in establishing its global line of credit beginning at $950 million, plus supporting their acquisition of various oil and gas assets in the Gulf, including transmission facilities and platforms.
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