Practice Areas

Our corporate finance, securities and business law group provides a broad range of business, mergers and acquisitions, and securities-related services to all forms of business organizations. We assist our clients through all stages of their business life, from the selection of the most efficient form of start-up business organization (corporation, limited liability company, partnership, etc.), to drafting agreements among the founders of the business, including shareholder, limited liability and partnership agreements. We help management and boards of directors (and often compensation and audit committees) structure intercompany relationships, adopt new charters, address disclosure questions, negotiate employment agreements and develop new compensation arrangements, and we help underwriters advise their clients on these matters.  We advise clients of the federal and state securities laws regulating transactions involving the issuance and transfer of securities.

Our experience in all types of legal, financial, regulatory and corporate governance issues makes us uniquely qualified to assist closely held companies and their underwriters as these companies navigate the path of rapid growth, early-stage capital raising, whether through bank financing or private placements, and the transition to public ownership. As a client negotiates an acquisition of another business through a merger or other acquisition, we undertake a comprehensive due diligence review of the target company’s business, its principals, operations and finances to help insure that our client gets the full benefit of the purchased assets. We also conduct a full due diligence review of a purchaser of a business when representing the seller of a business to aid our client in receiving value for their business.

Lehman & Eilen LLP has established a national reputation for creative, high-quality and responsive services representing both issuers and underwriters in private placements and mergers and acquisitions by providing the quality clients expect from a big firm with the hands-on client contact and guidance of a small firm environment. We understand the needs and perspective of all types of clients from various angles.

Lehman & Eilen LLP also serves as special securities counsel to other law firms across the country.