Corporate

Sullivan's Corporate Group integrates and delivers comprehensive corporate legal services to domestic and international organizations in all stages of development. For mature multi-billion dollar corporations, privately held companies and start-ups alike, our skilled lawyers have handled numerous highly complex transactions. A number of our corporate practices have been recognized in law firm surveys and rankings, such as The American Lawyer Corporate Scorecard, The Legal 500 US, PLC Which Lawyer? and The Private Equity Analyst.

Our work for clients ranges from mergers and acquisitions and public securities offerings, to joint ventures/partnerships and shareholder agreements, to private equity and venture capital investments, to public and private debt financings, to general corporate and commercial agreements and corporate governance. In collaboration with our highly skilled tax, real estate and intellectual property lawyers, our Corporate Group finds customized solutions to help our clients meet their business objectives. Our lawyers work together in small, multi-disciplinary teams, emphasizing close client-partner contact and collaboration.

Representative Client Work

• Facilitated a telecommunications company's IPO and counseled on other offerings of equity and debt securities valued at more than $5 billion
• American Tower Corporation's $260 million cash purchase of 2,000 communication towers (including a build-to-suit for an additional 1,000 towers) from AT&T Corp.
• Counseled a U.S. borrower on its $650 million syndicated multi-currency credit agreement
• Represented an institutional investor in civil and criminal proceedings to recover losses from a rogue employee's off-market trading of more than $9 billion in securities
• Assisted a financial services company in switching its listing from NASDAQ to NYSE
• Represent a leading venture capital fund with more than $1.6 billion in committed capital under management; facilitated the fund's first "going-private" transaction with a publicly-traded enterprise
• Ensure observance of Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements, stock exchange listing standards, fiduciary duties and state law governance practices