My corporate & securities transactional experience includes assisting clients with: • Business sales and acquisitions.• Specific legal issues facing company founders in the startup phase by analyzing the client's specific needs in the areas of taxation, ownership, management structure, fundraising, governance, employee scenarios, exit strategy, and others.• Private equity transactions in financing emerging growth companies, including equity, debt (unsecured and secured), convertible debt and mezzanine financing transactions. • Establishing reliable contracts with third parties to protect the client and minimize the likelihood of future litigation.• Exit strategies, including sales of assets, stock, and membership units. • Issues involving shareholder disputes, shareholder oppression, breach of fiduciary duties, business succession disputes, close corporation and family owned businesses, and corporate dissolutionBeing a part of Brown Fox also allows me to draw upon the experience of our firm’s lawyers in the key areas of litigation and labor & employment to advise the client on such issues as: litigation prevention, employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, non-compete/non-solicitation agreements, and protection of trade secrets.