Corporate Legal Services

Overview

Successful businesses competing in the global economy require experienced and bold legal counsel to help them their asset's value.  Greenberg Glusker’s attorneys advise clients in all aspects of their business operations.

Clients include organizations and individuals, ranging from start-up ventures and middle market businesses, to larger, public and privately-held multinational corporations.

They operate in nearly all sectors of the economy, and our representation is designed to address their evolving needs.

In venture and business financing, we counsel investors providing start-up and later-stage capital, as well as companies in creating the type of securities to be offered and sold.  We negotiate complex compensation packages for senior-level executives. We advise individuals and entities granting third parties the right to use and exploit their trademarks and other intellectual property in various commercial ventures, and to further assist clients in growing and strengthening their businesses, we counsel them on opportunistic mergers and/or stock or asset acquisitions.

A point of pride for our Corporate Law Group is the precision and insight we apply when addressing our clients’ business problems.  Our attorneys quickly identify the principal risks or issues at hand and offer timely, creative and practical solutions.  Our approach ensures that the chosen course of action is implemented in a timely and cost-effective manner. 

As outside counsel for our business clients, we provide a range of advice as expansive and sophisticated as are the issues that confront our clients.  We frequently analyze the form of entity, or structure of entities, appropriate for our clients' businesses. Considerations of tax goals, investment objectives and business risks all inform our recommendations.

As trusted legal counselors to business owners, our Corporate Law Group lawyers bring a wealth of experience and creativity to their handling of our clients' business issues.  We advise clients on concerns related to employees, strategic alliances or ventures with third parties, and contractual arrangements with suppliers, distributors and other people conducting business with them. 

For many of our clients, their businesses intertwine with estate plans, succession wishes, and tax strategies.  Maximizing the effectiveness of all these plans requires strategic coordination.  Our Corporate Law Group, Taxation Group and Estate Planning Group work in concert to realize the most advantageous tax results.  Tax counsel is also important to the structuring and negotiating of the terms of the sale or other disposition of a client’s business.

Our attorneys provide clients with a breadth of business legal expertise and knowledge most commonly associated with mega-size law firms. Where Greenberg Glusker excels at serving clients is in our best-of-both-worlds approach - big firm quality and capabilities combined with the client-focused attentiveness and responsiveness of easy-to-access lawyers.

For more information, please contact Joel Weinstein, Chair of Greenberg Glusker's Corporate Law Group.

Representative Experience

  • Represented LIOCO Wine Company in the restructuring of its ownership group, in connection with which outstanding debt was canceled and converted to equity, and a co-founder sold a portion of his equity interest in the company to one of the converted debt holders. 
  • Acted as outside counsel to K2 Network in connection with a recapitalization transaction, in which three different series of preferred stock were converted to common stock and the company's senior secured credit facility was restructured.
  • Represented The Sports Club Company in selling to affiliates of Equinox Holdings, Inc., its four remaining health and fitness clubs located in West Los Angeles, Irvine and Beverly Hills, CA, and at Rockefeller Center in New York City
  • Represented Saban Brands in the reacquisition of the Power Rangers 
  • Ongoing representation of one of the largest privately-held landscape services companies in the United States in connection with a series of strategic asset and stock acquisitions of regional landscape construction and landscape maintenance businesses. Purchases range from $3 million to $45 million.
  • Ongoing representation of an investment trust focused on alternative energy companies and other clean tech industries.  Counsel includes structuring, negotiating and documenting private investment in public companies (PIPE) transactions and numerous investments in venture-stage companies, ranging from start-ups to late-round financings. Representation also includes preparing and managing the trust’s U.S. securities filing obligations and coordinating similar international filing obligations.
  • Represented a publicly-held operator of high-end health and fitness clubs in selling selected clubs that operated primarily in the East to one of the operator’s shareholders for $80 million. As part of the sale, we also represented the company in refinancing $50 million of real estate-secured debt.
  • Represented a privately-held internet video streaming company in a sale to a large, publicly-held media company for $52 million.
  • Represented a privately-held financial software developer in a sale to a publicly-held financial services company.  The deal involved a combination of cash and securities valued at approximately $30 million.
  • Represented a shopping center developer in connection with the sale of its 50-percent membership interest in a Culver City shopping center to the other 50-percent owner for approximately $40 million.
  • Represented a principal shareholder of a privately-held credit card processing company who sold her equity stake to another existing shareholder for $140 million.
  • Ongoing representation of Olympic gold medalist and World Champion boxer Oscar De La Hoya and Golden Boy Promotions, his boxing promotion company, in a variety of matters, including strategic partnering with a major sports and entertainment conglomerate and grants of equity interests to certain key executives and boxers.
  • Represented a sports icon in acquiring an equity interest in, and finalizing a multi-year contract to serve as head coach of, an NHL hockey team, and in dozens of endorsement and licensing arrangements with companies as varied as Anheuser-Busch, Ford, McDonald’s and Pepsi.
  • Represented an Emmy-award winning actress in connection with a number of endorsement, licensing and branding opportunities in which her name, image and likeness were used to promote the sale of different types of products, from skin care to home furnishings and apparel.
  • Represented a privately-held food distribution company in acquiring selected operating divisions of Heinz Food for an aggregate consideration exceeding $10 million.
  • Ongoing representation of a syndicator of apartment projects in a series of equity raises for acquisitions of apartment projects in Southern California aggregating approximately $350 million.
  • Ongoing representation of Roland Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of musical instruments, in structuring its credit and security transactions with retail dealers and financing companies.